Kepler 16B Orbit. Star a and b are orbiting each other at their barycenter, or center of mass. Kepler 16b is so far the first and only example of a confirmed circumbinary planet.
Kepler Discovers A World Orbiting Two Stars Nasa from www.nasa.gov With an orbit of about 104 million kilometers, it lies near the outer edge of this. Kepler 16b is 200 light years from earth. Kepler 16b was discovered by the kepler space vehicle, a satellite telescope that searches for habitable planets.
Kepler 16b is so far the first and only example of a confirmed circumbinary planet.
Kepler 16b is so far the first and only example of a confirmed circumbinary planet. With an orbit of about 104 million kilometers, it lies near the outer edge of this. Kepler 16b is a planet orbiting both kepler 16a and kepler 16b. It consists of a planet on an almost perfectly circular orbit (e = 0.0069) around a moderately eccentric binary (e = 0.16).
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