HAT-P-24b
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HAT-P-24b is an extrasolar planet
. It is a hot Jupiter
, with a mass of 0.681 MJ and a radius of 1.243 RJ. It was discovered in the HATNet Project
in 2010.
Extrasolar planet
An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet outside the Solar System. A total of such planets have been identified as of . It is now known that a substantial fraction of stars have planets, including perhaps half of all Sun-like stars...
. It is a hot Jupiter
Hot Jupiter
Hot Jupiters are a class of extrasolar planet whose mass is close to or exceeds that of Jupiter...
, with a mass of 0.681 MJ and a radius of 1.243 RJ. It was discovered in the HATNet Project
HATNet Project
The Hungarian Automated Telescope Network project is a network of six small fully automated "HAT" telescopes. The scientific goal of the project is to detect and characterize extrasolar planets using the transit method. This network is used also to find and follow bright variable stars...
in 2010.