HR 8799 d is an

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located approximately 129

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s away in the

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, orbiting the 6th

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HR 8799 HR 8799 is a roughly 30 million-year-old main-sequence star located away from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus. It has roughly 1.5 times the Sun's mass and 4.9 times its luminosity. It is part of a system that also c ...

. It has a mass between 5 and 10

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es and a radius from 20 to 30% larger than

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's. The planet orbits at 24 AU from HR 8799 with an eccentricity greater than 0.04 and a period of 100 years. Upon initial discovery, it was the innermost known planet in the HR 8799 system, but e, discovered later, is now known to be closer to their parent star. Along with two other planets orbiting HR 8799, this planet was discovered on November 13, 2008 by Marois ''et al.'', using the Keck and Gemini observatories in

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. These planets were discovered using the

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technique. Near infrared spectroscopy from 995 to 1769 nanometers made with the

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show evidence of Acetylene, Methane, and Carbon Dioxide, but Ammonia is not definitively detected. In 2021, the further detection of Water and Carbon Monoxide in the planetary atmosphere was made with the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC). __NOTOC__

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* HR 8799 Exoplanets discovered in 2008 Giant planets Pegasus (constellation) Exoplanets detected by direct imaging {{extrasolar-planet-stub

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