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Radial velocity · 2011

HD 204941 b

This world receives 21× less starlight than Earth; a year lasts 4.74 years; the light you see left it 94 years ago.

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Size
0.9 × Jupiterestimated
A year
4.74 years2.55 AU
Temperature
−139 °C134 K

About this world

HD 204941 b is a gas giant orbiting HD 204941, an orange dwarf (type K1/2V) 93.7 light-years from Earth. It is about 0.9 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass), with at least 0.23 Jupiter masses (a minimum, measured by radial velocity). It completes an orbit every 4.74 years at 2.5 AU from its star, on a strongly elongated orbit (e = 0.37).

Its equilibrium temperature is about 134 K (−139 °C): too cold for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.

It was discovered in 2011 by radial velocity with La Silla Observatory. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum.

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