The HD 168746 system contains 1 exoplanet. It is located 135.58 light years away from the solar system.
Mass | 1.07 solar masses |
Radius | 1.09 solar radiae |
Temperature | 5570 kelvin |
Stellar Metallicity | -0.08 decimal exponent |
Age | 8 billion years |
At more than 50 Earth masses, HD 168746 b is a gas giant, a planet whose mass is mostly made up of hydrogen and helium, like Jupiter and Saturn.
Mass | 85.814 Earth masses |
Density | 0.345 grams per cubic centimeter |
Radius | 11.100 Earth radiae |
Semi-major Axis | 0.07 AU |
Eccentricity | 0.11 |
Orbital Period | 6.404 days |
Discovery Method | Radial Velocity |
Discovery Facility | La Silla Observatory |
Discovery Telescope | 1.2 m Leonhard Euler Telescope |
Discovery Instrument | CORALIE Spectrograph |
Discovery Date | 2002-06 |
Reference | Pepe et al. 2002 |