1. Kepler 1649
2. Kepler 160
3. Kepler 16 Ab B
4. Kepler 1649b

Like Luke Skywalker’s home planet Tatooine from “Star Wars,” Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars. This 2011 discovery by NASA’s Kepler mission was one of the first worlds found orbiting a binary star, proving that a double-sunset is anything but science fiction. Amazon.com: Relax On Kepler 16B - NASA JPL Space Tourism Travel Poster 24' x 36' (Unframed) - Certified DigitalFusion CTI Printed with 200 Year Lifespan.

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03 May 2012: Revised parameters (Bender et al. 2012):
- M_A = 0.654 ± 0.017 M_Sun
- M_B = 0.1959 ± 0.0031 M_Sun
- e = 0.15894 ± 0.00079
- ω = 263.287 ± 0.041 deg.
13 Sep 2011: Kepler 16 is an eclisping binary star with a 41.0781 day period with two K or M components (Slawson et al. 2011).

The mass given to Kepler-16(AB) is the sum of the masses of components A and B.
The parameters for the individual components are (in solar units - Doyle et al. 2011):
Star A:
Mass: 0.6897 ± 0.0035
Radius: 0.6489 ± 0.0013
Temp.: 4450 ± 150 K
[Fe/H]: -0.3 ± 0.2
Star B:
Mass: 0.20255 ± 0.00065
Radius: 0.22623 ± 0.00059
Binary system:
Period: 41.079 ± 0.000078 day
Semi-maj. axis: 0.224 ± 0.00035 AU
Inclination: 90.3401 ± 0.0019 deg.
Ecc.: 0.15944 ± 0.0006

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