| Proper Name | Cuptor | | Designations | Diya b, WASP-72 b | | Classification | Gas giant (hot Jupiter) | | Orbital Period | 2 days, 5 hours | | Mean Distance from Diya | 5.4 million km
0.04 AU | | Mass | 1.4 x Jupiter | | Diameter | 1.01 x Jupiter | | Temperature | 2,210 K (1,937°C) | | Parent star | Diya (WASP-72), bright yellow dwarf in Fornax | | Other planets in this system | None known | | Notes | Cuptor is an immense gas giant, more than twice as massive as Jupiter, that follows a very close orbit around its star. That star, Diya or WASP-72, is the primary member of a wide binary system lying an estimated 1,400 light years from the Sun in the constellation of Fornax. |
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