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HD 209458 b

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HD 209458 b

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Also known as Osiris

extrasolar planet

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
Pl
Distance
157 light-years
Coordinates
RA 330.7949° · Dec 18.8843°
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Key facts

Discovered by
D. Charbonneau , T. Brown , David Latham, M. Mayor , G.W. Henry , G. Marcy , R.P. Butler , S.S. Vogt
Discovery site
High Altitude Observatory , Geneva Observatory
Discovery date
September 9, 1999
Detection method
Radial velocity
Semi major axis
0.04707 AU (7,042,000 km)
Eccentricity
<0.0081
Orbital period sidereal
3.524 748 59 (38) d , 84.59396616 h
Inclination
86.710° ± 0.050°
Time of periastron
2 452 826 .629 283 (87) JD
Semi amplitude
84.27 +0.69, −0.70 m/s
Star
HD 209458
Mean radius
1.359 +0.016, −0.019 R J
Mass
0.682 +0.014, −0.015 M J
Mean density
0.333 +0.014, −0.013 g/cm
Surface gravity
9.2 m/s (0.94 g )
Albedo
0.096 ± 0.016 ( geometric )
Temperature
1499 ± 15 K (1,226 °C; 2,239 °F, dayside) , 972 ± 44 K (699 °C; 1,290 °F, nightside)

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
exoplanet
Constellation
Pegasus
Parent body
V376 Pegasi
Radius
1.38
Mass
0.69
Orbital period
3.52472
Image
Osirisplanet.jpg
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Commons category
HD 209458 b
catalog code
TIC 420814525b
discovery method
Doppler spectroscopy
time of discovery or invention
2000-01-00
right ascension
330.79488733281750
declination
18.88431895791083
epoch
J2000.0
orbital eccentricity
0
semi-major axis of an orbit
0.04747
orbital inclination
86.59
discoverer or inventor
Michel Mayor
right ascension component of proper motion
29.579
declination component of proper motion
-17.890
argument of periapsis
43.8
albedo
0.038
parallax
20.6745
M sin i
0.699
time of periapsis
2452968.399
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Encyclopedic overview

HD 209458 b is an exoplanet, specifically a hot Jupiter, that orbits the solar analog HD 209458 in the constellation Pegasus, some 157 light-years (48 parsecs) from the Solar System. It is sometimes informally called Osiris. The radius of the planet's orbit is 0.047 AU (7.0 million km; 4.4 million mi), or one-eighth the radius of Mercury's orbit (0.39 AU (36 million mi; 58 million km)). This small orbital distance results in a year that is 3.5 Earth-days long and an estimated surface temperature of about 1,000 °C (1,800 °F; 1,300 K). Its mass is 220 times that of Earth (0.69 Jupiter masses) and its volume is some 2.5 times greater than that of Jupiter. The high mass and volume of HD 209458 b indicate that it is a gas giant.

HD 209458 b represents a number of milestones in exoplanetary research. It was the first of many categories:

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “HD 209458 b” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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