HD 76700

'HD 76700' is a yellow dwarf star (spectral type G6 V) 195 light years from Earth in the constellation of Volans. It has a mass very similar to our Sun, but is cooler and brighter and thus much older. It is orbited by a recently discovered planet.

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HD 76700 b

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HD 76700 b

'HD 76700 b' is a planet discovered orbiting the star in 2002. The planet is a gas giant a fifth the mass of Jupiter. It orbits very close to its parent star and completes one orbit in less than four days.

References

★ Four New Planets Orbiting Metal-enriched Stars, Tinney et al., , , The Astrophysical Journal, 2003

★ Catalog of Nearby Exoplanets, Butler, R. et al., , , The Astrophysical Journal, 2006 (web Preprint)

External links

★ SIMBAD star entry, planet entry

★ The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia entry

★ Extrasolar Visions entry

★ Stars and Planets entry