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Space Astro
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Info for exoplanet "Yiwyum-erch"
Scientific (actual) data |
Planet | Kepler-38 (AB) b |
Planet status | Confirmed |
Planet mass | 0.38 |
Radius | 0.39 |
Orbital period | 105.595 |
Semi major axis | 0.4644 |
Inclination | 89.446 |
Discovered | 2012 |
Updated | 2018-07-23 |
Publication | Published in a refereed paper |
Detection type | Primary Transit |
Star name | Kepler-38 A |
Right ascension | 286.83° |
Declination | 42.28° |
Mag v | 14.3 |
Star metallicity | -0.158 |
Star mass | 0.949 |
Star radius | 1.757 |
Star temperature | 5640 |
Wikipedia article | Kepler-38 (AB) b |
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Fictional info (?) |
Suggested name | Yiwyum-erch |
Planet type | Cold gas giant |
This planet is named after the deity Yiwyum-erch, the demon of love and beauty.
Two spacecraft have visited Yiwyum-erch: Frontier 5 flew by 51 years ago; and Messenger, launched 26 years ago, orbited Yiwyum-erch over 120 times in four years before exhausting its fuel and crashing into the planet's atmosphere 12 years later.
The atmospheric pressure at the planet's surface is 13 bar, or roughly the pressure found 495 m under the oceans of Earth. The ethane has probably photodissociated, and the free ammonia has been swept into interplanetary space by the solar wind because of the lack of a molecular hydrogen layer.
Plans have been proposed for rovers or more complex missions, but they are hindered by Yiwyum-erch's hazardous precipitation. |
Atmosphere | Ammonia | 56% |
Oxygen | 39% |
Ethane | 2.5% |
Molecular hydrogen | 1.1% |
Carbon dioxide | 0.55% |
Helium | 0.33% |
Hydrogen chloride | 0.0037% |
Atmospheric pressure | 13 bar |
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No known satellites |
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Website by Joachim Michaelis
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