TrES-2 b
What is TrES-2 b?
The planet of eternal night, TrES-2 b (named also TrES-2, TrES-2 A b, and Kepler-1 b) is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star GSC 03549-02811, located in the constellation Draco. On August 21, 2006, Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES) discovered this exoplanet through the transit it made across its parent star using Sleuth (Palomar Observatory, California) and PSST (Lowell Observatory, Arizona). TrES-2 b was confirmed by the W.M.Keck Observatory on September 8, 2006, based on measurements of the star that hosts it.
What is special about this exoplanet?
In 2011, it was determined that TrES-2 b is the darkest exoplanet known so far, but today WASP-12b took its throne of being darker, reflecting less than 1% of all light that strikes it, thus it is named the "Dark world".
Morphology
Geomorphology
Using TrES-2 b's diameter of 181,880 km (113,014.992 miles), we are able to calculate its surface area, which is 103,924,935,529 km² (40,125,641,934.1314 miles²).
Anatomy
TrES-2 b has no surface such as Jupiter. Its interior structure is yet unknown.
We still do not know the density of TrES-2 b, but we do know its mass which is of 2,378,194,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
Tectonic plates
Studies of the tectonic plates of TrES-2 b has yet to be made.
Location
The distance between TrES-2 b and its star is only 0.03227340053 AU (4,828,032 km or 3,000,000 miles).
TrES-2 b is situated 750.2 light years (7,097,440,000,000,000 km or 4,410,144,754,632,943.5 miles) away from Earth.
Physico-chemical properties
As indicated by its mass and radius, TrES-2 b is a gas giant with a bulk composition similar to that of Jupiter. The atmosphere of this exoplanet includes vaporized sodium, potassium, and titanium oxide, which actually add to the problem by absorbing heat. Still, TrES-2 b's extreme blackness is not fully explained.
Temperature
TrES-2 b has a calculated temperature of 1455.0 K (1181.85°C or 2159.33°F).
Age
The age of TrES-2 b is 5.1 billion years.
Force fields
Gravitational force
TrES-2 b has a gravitational force of 32.21 m/s² (105.675853 ft/s²).
Magnetic field
It is still not known.
Motions
Orbit
It takes 59 terrestrial hours (2.45833 Earth days) for TrES-2 b to make a full orbit aroud its host Star TrES-2.
Rotation
It is thought that TrES-2 b is tidally locked like our moon, so one side of the planet is always facing the star, which means it has no days.
Satellite systems
Moon system
No moons have yet been found near TrES-2 b, but it is now being closely studied for signs of a possible satellite.
Ring system
TrES-2 b has no ring.
Author: William Homier
Editor: William Homier
This page was last edited on 11 April 2022, at 19:50 (HAE).
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