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- Kaywell's Star (SLIPPIST-60, CSO-6.32/568321) was recorded in a catalog several centuries ago by an astronomer named Kaywell Kerman. He noted that during an observation of the planet, its brightness decreased very slightly compared to a nearby star of similar magnitude. Kaywell's inclusion of this fact in his notes was considered frivolous, as he was not able to identify a definite decrease in star brightness later--not one that he could be sure of. Eventually writing it off as an illusion, it was another century until the SLIPPIST telescope detected a transit signal from the star. Running the records back it turns out Kaywell's first observation of the star was a double-transit of the two gas giants in the system.
- Prior to the Roadseeker Probe's mission in Y98 to Kaywell's Star, it was known to have three planets:
- Kaywell b
- * Detection: Transit, Y40
- * Radius: ~1.5 Rjool
- * Mass: ~2 Mjool (Radial Velocity)
- Kaywell d
- * Detection: Radial Velocity, Y112
- * Mass: ~70 Mkerbin (Radial Velocity)
- Kaywell c
- * Detection: Transit, Y120
- * Radius: ~1 Rjool
- * Mass: ~1 Rjool
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- The Roadseeker Probe, during its flyby of the Kaywell system, noted first that Kaywell d was a binary planet, and that one of the worlds had an oxygen atmosphere (spectrum observed during a transit of the sun.)
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