The HD 79498 system contains 1 exoplanet. It is located 159.65 light years away from the solar system.
Mass | 1.08 solar masses |
Radius | 1.05 solar radiae |
Temperature | 5748 kelvin |
Stellar Metallicity | 0.18 decimal exponent |
Age | 2.71 billion years |
At more than 50 Earth masses, HD 79498 b is a gas giant, a planet whose mass is mostly made up of hydrogen and helium, like Jupiter and Saturn.
Mass | 425.892 Earth masses |
Density | 0.930 grams per cubic centimeter |
Radius | 13.600 Earth radiae |
Semi-major Axis | 2.98 AU |
Eccentricity | 0.575 |
Orbital Period | 1807.000 days |
Discovery Method | Radial Velocity |
Discovery Facility | McDonald Observatory |
Discovery Telescope | 2.7 m Harlan J. Smith Telescope |
Discovery Instrument | Tull Coude Spectrograph |
Discovery Date | 2012-04 |
Reference | Robertson et al. 2012 |