94 Ceti b or 94 Ceti Ab to distinguish it from the distant
red dwarf
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companion, is an
extrasolar planet orbiting its
star
A star is an astronomical object comprising a luminous spheroid of plasma (physics), plasma held together by its gravity. The List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs, nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked ...
once every 1.2 years. It was discovered on August 7, 2000 by a team led by
Michel Mayor.
It is most stable if its inclination is about 65 or 115, yielding a mass of about 1.85 that of Jupiter.
See also
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Iota Horologii b
Iota Horologii b (ι Hor b / ι Horologii b), often catalogued HR 810 b, is an extrasolar planet approximately 56.5 light-years away in the constellation of Horologium (the Pendulum Clock). Iota Horologii b has a minimum mass 2.26 times that of J ...
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79 Ceti b
79 Ceti b (also known as ''HD 16141 b'') is an extrasolar planet orbiting 79 Ceti every 75 days. Discovered along with HD 46375 b on March 29, 2000, it was the joint first known extrasolar planet to have minimum mass less than the mass of Sat ...
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94 Ceti
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Cetus (constellation)
Exoplanets discovered in 2000
Exoplanets detected by radial velocity