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HD 196067 b

HD 196067 b is a gas giant orbiting the star HD 196067. Its year lasts 3,410 Earth days. It was discovered in 2012 by the Radial Velocity method.

Host starHD 196067
Distance130.3 light-years (39.9 pc)
Orbital period9.35 years
Orbital radius4.71 AU
Eccentricity0.563
Radius12.4 R⊕ · 1.11 R♃
Mass3,620 M⊕ · 11.4 M♃
Density10.4 g/cm³
Surface gravity23.6 × Earth
Equilibrium temperature176 K (-97 °C)
Stellar flux received0.16 × Earth
Discovery methodRadial Velocity
Discovery year2012
Discovered byLa Silla Observatory

Habitable zone

Beyond the habitable zone: it receives only %16 of the light the Earth does, a frozen world.

Its star in the sky

In the planet's sky its star is a disc 0.19° across: 0.36 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

Too faint for the naked eye (magnitude 6.51); binoculars will find it. Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 15° N. South of latitude 15° S it never sets.

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1896. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 2.3 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.