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Exoplanet · gas giant

HD 12235 c

HD 12235 c is a gas giant orbiting the star HD 12235. Its year lasts 36,300 Earth days. It was discovered in 2022 by the Radial Velocity method.

Host starHD 12235
Distance103.6 light-years (31.8 pc)
Orbital period99.5 years
Orbital radius22.2 AU
Eccentricity0.174
Radius12.5 R⊕ · 1.12 R♃
Mass3,140 M⊕ · 9.87 M♃
Density8.82 g/cm³
Surface gravity20.1 × Earth
Equilibrium temperature82 K (-191 °C)
Stellar flux received0.0076 × Earth
Discovery methodRadial Velocity
Discovery year2022
Discovered byMultiple Observatories

Habitable zone

Beyond the habitable zone: it receives only %0.76 of the light the Earth does, a frozen world.

Its star in the sky

In the planet's sky its star is a disc 0.043° across: 0.081 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

Visible to the naked eye under a dark sky (apparent magnitude 5.89). Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 87° S. It stands highest at midnight in October, the best time to observe it.

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1922. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 1.8 million years.

Planets in the same system

Open in the simulation

Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.