Exoplanet · gas giant
HD 12661 b
HD 12661 b is a gas giant orbiting the star HD 12661. Its year lasts 263 Earth days. It was discovered in 2000 by the Radial Velocity method.
| Host star | HD 12661 |
|---|---|
| Distance | 123.4 light-years (37.8 pc) |
| Orbital period | 263 days |
| Orbital radius | 0.84 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.380 |
| Radius | 13.3 R⊕ · 1.19 R♃ |
| Mass (minimum) | 772 M⊕ · 2.43 M♃ |
| Density | 1.8 g/cm³ |
| Equilibrium temperature | 325 K (52 °C) |
| Stellar flux received | 1.92 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Radial Velocity |
| Discovery year | 2000 |
| Discovered by | Multiple Observatories |
Habitable zone
Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 1.92 times the light the Earth does, too hot to keep liquid water on its surface.
Its star in the sky
In the planet's sky its star is a disc 0.76° across: 1.4 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.
In the sky
Too faint for the naked eye (magnitude 7.43); binoculars will find it. Visible from the whole Northern Hemisphere and south to latitude 65° S. North of latitude 65° N it never sets. 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 1903. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 2.2 million years.
Planets in the same system
- HD 12661 c 1,710-day orbit · 13.2 R⊕
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.