HD 216770 b is an
extrasolar planet
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orbiting the star
HD 216770
HD 216770 is a star with an orbiting exoplanet in the southern constellation of Piscis Austrinus. With an apparent visual magnitude of 8.11, it is too faint to be visible to the naked eye. It is located at a distance of 120 light ...
. It has a mass about two thirds that of
Jupiter
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, largest planet in the
Solar System
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. But unlike the
gas giant
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s in the Solar System, it orbits in a very
eccentric
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orbit around the star. The mean distance from the star is slightly larger than
Mercury's, and it completes one orbit around the star in every 118
day
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s.
See also
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HD 10647 b
HD 10647 b, also catalogued as q1 Eridani b, is an extrasolar planet approximately 57 light-years away in the constellation of Eridanus (the River). The planet is a mid-Jovian that orbits 103% farther from the star than Earth to the Sun. It take ...
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HD 108874 b
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HD 111232 b
HD 111232 b is an extrasolar planet that orbits at almost 2 AU with a minimum mass of 6.8 times that of Jupiter. This planet was discovered in the La Silla Observatory by Michel Mayor using the CORALIE spectrograph on 30 June 2003, along with six ...
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HD 142415 b
HD 142415 b is an exoplanet with the semi-amplitude of 51.3 ± 2.3 m/s. This indicates the minimum mass of 1.69 Jupiter mass, an orbital period of 386.3 days, and the semi-major axis of 1.07 astronomical units based from its stellar mass. The ...
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HD 169830 c
HD 169830 c is an extrasolar planet, most likely a gas giant, with a minimum mass three and a half times that of Jupiter. Its orbit is eccentric, with a period (year) of 1830 days. In 2022, the true mass and inclination of HD 169830 c were measure ...
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HD 41004 Ab
HD 41004 Ab is an extrasolar planet approximately 139 light years away in the constellation of Pictor. It has mass 2.56 MJ planet
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HD 65216 b
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Piscis Austrinus
Exoplanets discovered in 2003
Giant planets
Exoplanets detected by radial velocity
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