We report the discovery of WASP-6b, an inflated sub-Jupiter mass planet transiting every 3.3610060^{\rm + 0.0000022 }_ days a mildly metal-poor solar-type star of magnitude V = 11.9. A combined analysis of the WASP photometry, high-precision followup transit photometry and radial velocities yield a planetary mass M_{\rm p} = 0.503^_MJβ and radius R_{\rm p} = 1.224^_RJβ, resulting in a density Οpβ=0.27Β±0.05ΟJβ. The mass and radius for the host star are M_\ast = 0.88^_Mββ and R_\ast = 0.870^_Rββ. The non-zero orbital eccentricity e = 0.054^{\rm +0.018}_ that we measure suggests that the planet underwent a massive tidal heating ~1 Gyr ago that could have contributed to its inflated radius. High-precision radial velocities obtained during a transit allow us to measure a sky-projected angle between the stellar spin and orbital axis \beta = 11^_ deg. In addition to similar published measurements, this result favors a dominant migration mechanism based on tidal interactions with a protoplanetary disk
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