HD 224693 b, also named Xólotl, is an
extrasolar planet orbiting the
star
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HD 224693
HD 224693 is a star in the equatorial constellation of Cetus, and is positioned near the western constellation border with Aquarius. It can be viewed with a small telescope but is too faint to be seen with the naked eye, having an appare ...
every 27
day
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s with a
minimum mass 70% of
Jupiter.
The planet HD 224693 b is named Xólotl. The name was selected in the
NameExoWorlds campaign by
Mexico, during the 100th anniversary of the
IAU
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.
Xólotl
In Aztec mythology, Xolotl () was a god of fire and lightning. He was commonly depicted as a dog-headed man and was a soul-guide for the dead. He was also god of twins, monsters, misfortune, sickness, and deformities. Xolotl is the canine brothe ...
means animal in the native
Nahuatl language
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and was an Aztec deity associated with the evening star (
Venus).
See also
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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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HD 33283 b
HD 33283 b is an exoplanet orbiting around HD 33283. The mass of the planet is about 1/3 that of Jupiter or about the same as Saturn. However, the planet orbits very close to the star, taking only 18 days to complete its orbit with average spe ...
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HD 86081 b
HD 86081 b or Santamasa, meaning 'clouded' in Sanskrit, is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits close to its host star HD 86081 or Bibha, completing its orbit in only 2.1375 days. With such a short orbit it belongs to the class of exoplanets known ...
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Cetus
Giant planets
Exoplanets discovered in 2006
Exoplanets detected by radial velocity
Exoplanets with proper names
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