The HD 171238 system contains 1 exoplanet. It is located 146.15 light years away from the solar system.
Mass | 0.96 solar masses |
Radius | 1.01 solar radiae |
Temperature | 5440 kelvin |
Stellar Metallicity | 0.2 decimal exponent |
Age | 7.56 billion years |
At more than 50 Earth masses, HD 171238 b is a gas giant, a planet whose mass is mostly made up of hydrogen and helium, like Jupiter and Saturn.
Mass | 2796.890 Earth masses |
Density | 7.870 grams per cubic centimeter |
Radius | 12.500 Earth radiae |
Semi-major Axis | 2.57 AU |
Eccentricity | 0.234 |
Orbital Period | 1532.000 days |
Discovery Method | Radial Velocity |
Discovery Facility | La Silla Observatory |
Discovery Telescope | 1.2 m Leonhard Euler Telescope |
Discovery Instrument | CORALIE Spectrograph |
Discovery Date | 2010-02 |
Reference | Ségransan et al. 2010 |