The HD 206255 system contains 1 exoplanet. It is located 245.39 light years away from the solar system.
Mass | 1.42 solar masses |
Radius | 2.22 solar radiae |
Temperature | 5635 kelvin |
Stellar Metallicity | - decimal exponent |
Age | - billion years |
At more than 10 Earth masses, HD 206255 b is an ice giant, a planet that is made up mostly of volatiles like water, amonia and methane, and enveloped by a dense hydrogen and helium atmosphere, much like Uranus and Neptune.
Mass | 34.200 Earth masses |
Density | 0.694 grams per cubic centimeter |
Radius | 6.470 Earth radiae |
Semi-major Axis | 0.461 AU |
Eccentricity | 0.23 |
Orbital Period | 96.045 days |
Discovery Method | Radial Velocity |
Discovery Facility | Las Campanas Observatory |
Discovery Telescope | 6.5 m Magellan II Clay Telescope |
Discovery Instrument | Carnegie Planet Finder Spectrograph |
Discovery Date | 2019-06 |
Reference | Feng et al. 2019 |