Discovery | |
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Discovered by | Butler et al.[1] |
Discovery site | California, USA |
Discovery date | July 15, 2006 |
Radial velocity | |
Orbital characteristics | |
2.11 ± 0.13 AU (316,000,000 ± 19,000,000 km) | |
Eccentricity | 0.05 ± 0.14 |
1155 ± 23 d | |
2,411,100 ± 280 | |
195 | |
Semi-amplitude | 7.3 ± 1.2 |
Star | HD 164922 |
Physical characteristics | |
~8 R🜨 | |
Temperature | 159 K (−114 °C; −173 °F)[2] |
HD 164922 b is an exoplanet orbiting the star HD 164922 about 72 light-years from Earth in the constellation Hercules. Its inclination is not known, and its true mass may be significantly greater than the radial velocity lower limit of 0.36 Jupiter masses. The planet also has a low eccentricity, unlike most other long period extrasolar planets – 0.05 – about the same as Jupiter and Saturn in the Solar System.[1] The exoplanet was found by using the radial velocity method, from radial-velocity measurements via observation of Doppler shifts in the spectrum of the planet's parent star.
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