This is the list of 232 transiting extrasolar planets sorted by orbital periods. All the transiting planets have

true mass In astronomy, minimum mass is the lower-bound calculated mass of observed objects such as planets, stars and binary systems, nebulae, and black holes. Minimum mass is a widely cited statistic for extrasolar planets detected by the radial veloci ...

es, radii and most have known inclinations. Radius is determined by how much the star dims during the transit and inclination is determined from

Rossiter–McLaughlin effect The Rossiter–McLaughlin effect is a spectroscopic phenomenon observed when an object moves across the face of a star. Description The Rossiter–McLaughlin effect is a spectroscopic phenomenon observed when either an eclipsing binary's second ...

. True mass is determined by the

minimum mass In astronomy, minimum mass is the lower-bound calculated mass of observed objects such as planets, stars and binary systems, nebulae, and black holes. Minimum mass is a widely cited statistic for extrasolar planets detected by the radial veloc ...

determined from radial velocity observations divided by the sine of inclination. The first known planet to be discovered with the

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method was OGLE-TR-56b. The first planetary transit observed (by already known exoplanet) was caused by

HD 209458 b HD 209458 b, which is also nicknamed Osiris after the Egyptian god, is an exoplanet that orbits the solar analog HD 209458 in the constellation Pegasus, some from the Solar System. The radius of the planet's orbit is , or one-eighth the radius ...

. The most massive transiting exoplanet is

KELT-1b KELT-1 is a F-type main-sequence star. Its surface temperature is 6518 K. It is similar to the Sun in its concentration of heavy elements, with a metallicity Fe/H index of 0.008, but is much younger at an age of 1.75 billion years. The ...

which masses 27.23 M_J (making it a

brown dwarf Brown dwarfs (also called failed stars) are substellar objects that are not massive enough to sustain nuclear fusion of ordinary hydrogen (hydrogen-1, 1H) into helium in their cores, unlike a main sequence, main-sequence star. Instead, they have ...

) while the least massive is

Kepler-42 Kepler-42, formerly known as KOI-961, is a red dwarf located in the constellation Cygnus and approximately 131 light years from the Sun. It has three known extrasolar planets, all of which are smaller than Earth in radius, and likel ...

d which masses less than 0.003 M_J or 0.9 M_🜨.NASA.gov
/ref> The largest exoplanet known is

HAT-P-32b HAT-P-32b is a planet orbiting the G-type or F-type star HAT-P-32, which is approximately 950 light years away from Earth. HAT-P-32b was first recognized as a possible planet by the planet-searching HATNet Project in 2004, although difficultie ...

which is 2.037 R_J. The smallest exoplanet known is also

d which is 0.051 R_J or 0.57 R_🜨. The densest transiting exoplanet known is COROT-3b, which has density of 26.4 g/cm³; the diffusest transiting planet known is

Kepler-12b Kepler-12b is a hot Jupiter that orbits G-type star Kepler-12 some 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 being 0.4 ti ...

, which has density of only 0.111 g/cm³. The longest period of any transiting planets is Kepler-1647b, which takes 1107 days to orbit its (double) stars.Astronomers Discover Circumbinary Planet 3,700 Light-Years Away
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/ref> The shortest period is

Kepler-42c Kepler-42 c, previously KOI-961.02 then KOI-961 c, is an exoplanet orbiting Kepler-42, a star located about from the Solar System, in the constellation of Cygnus. A planetary system of at least three exoplanets with sizes between Mars and Ve ...

, which takes just 0.45 days to orbit its star There are 54 members of multi-planet systems. ''Yellow rows denote members of a multi-planet system''

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* * {{exoplanet Transiting exoplanets

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