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Kepler-12b

Astronomical discovery
Kepler-12b is a hot Jupiter that orbits G-type star Kepler-12 some 900 parsecs away. The planet has an anomalously large radius that could not be explained by standard models at the time of its discovery, almost 1.7 times Jupiter's size while... Wikipedia
Discovered: November 2011
Mean radius: 1.695 +0.028; −0.032 RJ
Orbits: Kepler-12
Mean density: 0.111 +0.011; −0.009 g cm−3
Mass: 0.431 (± 0.041) MJ