WASP-8 System

Exoplanetary Scratchpad [SysBP Img]

One of the 6 out of 27 planets analysed by the WASP team found to orbit backwards around its star in 2010. In a binary star system.

WASP-8 System Web Pages

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASP-8

WASP-8 System In the News

Discovered

WASP-8b: a retrograde transiting planet in a multiple system

• http://www.aanda.org/index.php?option=com_article&access=standard&Itemid=129&url=/articles/aa/abs/2010/09/aa14768-10/aa14768-10.html

One of six Retrograde Exoplanets (2010)

• http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/58275/title/Backward_planets_may_have_flipped_into_place
• http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=2220#description
• http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/04/some-planets-play-a-mean-game-of.html
• http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/90752569.html
• http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1016/

See Also

• Transiting Planets, WASP Planets