About this world
HD 96167 b is a gas giant orbiting HD 96167, a yellow, Sun-like star (type G5) 278 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.2 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass), with at least 0.72 Jupiter masses (a minimum, measured by radial velocity). It completes an orbit every 498 days at 1.3 AU from its star, on a strongly elongated orbit (e = 0.69).
Its equilibrium temperature is about 334 K (60 °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 2009 by radial velocity with W. M. Keck Observatory. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum.