CoRoT-5 b
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting CoRoT-5.
Compared with Earth
- Size
- About 16 times Earth's width.
- Mass
- About 148 times Earth's mass.
- Temperature
- About 1,165 °C (2,129 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
- Year
- A year here lasts about 4 Earth days.
Planet
- Radius
- 15.56 × Earth
- Mass
- 148.4 × Earth
- Density
- 0.217 g/cm³
- Equilibrium temperature
- 1,438 K
- Starlight received
- Unknown
- Orbital period
- 4.038 days
- Average distance from its star
- 0.04947 AU
Star
- Host star
- CoRoT-5
- Spectral class
- F — yellow-white
- Surface temperature
- 6,100 K
- Radius
- 1.186 × Sun
- Mass
- 1 × Sun
- Age
- 6.9 billion years
System
- Distance from Earth
- 2,878 light-years (882.5 parsecs)
- Stars in system
- 1
- Known planets
- 1
Discovery
- Year
- 2009
- Method
- Transit
- Facility
- CoRoT
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.