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Space Astro
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Info for exoplanet "Thea Athi"
Scientific (actual) data |
Planet | SDSS J1228+1040 b |
Planet status | Confirmed |
Radius | 0.0009 |
Orbital period | 0.0857 |
Semi major axis | 0.0034 |
Discovered | 2019 |
Updated | 2019-05-15 |
Temperature (kelvin) | 1800 |
Publication | Published in a refereed paper |
Detection type | Timing |
Star name | SDSS J1228+1040 |
Right ascension | 187.25° |
Declination | 10.68° |
Mag v | 17 |
Star distance | 126.73 |
Star mass | 0.705 |
Star sp type | DAZe |
Wikipedia article | SDSS J1228+1040 b |
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Fictional info (?) |
Suggested name | Thea Athi |
Planet type | Cold planet |
Orbiting within Titheanand Pho's orbit, Thea Athi is an inferior planet and never appears to venture far from SDSS J1228+1040; its maximum angular distance from SDSS J1228+1040 (elongation) is 79 degrees.
For this reason, scientists often classify Thea Athi and Titheanand Pho as "cold planets" to distinguish them from the other planets. It is the coldest planetary atmosphere in its solar system, with a minimum temperature of 28°K (-245°C), and has a complex, layered cloud structure with ammonium hydrosulfide (NH4SH) thought to make up the lowest clouds, and hydrogen chloride the uppermost layer of clouds. It is named after the deity Thea Athi, the goddess of good fortune.
An observer on Thea Athi would therefore see only one sunrise every two years.
Having almost no atmosphere to retain heat, it has surface temperatures that vary diurnally more than on any other planet in its solar system, ranging from 125°K (-148°C) at night to 1050°K (777°C) during the day across the equatorial regions.
Two spacecraft have visited Thea Athi: Daedalus 7 flew by 23 years ago; and Messenger, launched 9 years ago, orbited Thea Athi over 100 times in four years before exhausting its reactor and crashing into the planet's surface 8 years later.
The smooth Borealis basin in the northern hemisphere covers 11 percent of the planet and may be a giant impact feature. |
Atmosphere | Hydrogen chloride | 76% |
Ammonium hydrosulfide (NH4SH) | 11% |
Argon | 7.7% |
Helium | 4.9% |
Atmospheric pressure | 50 bar |
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No known satellites |
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Website by Joachim Michaelis
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