Taphao Kaew
47 UMa c
IAU name «Taphao Kaew» — Thailand, 2015 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- 47 UMa
- Distance from Earth
- 13.7967 pc (≈ 45 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 14.2
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 171.621
- Orbital period
- 2,391 days
- Semi-major axis
- 3.6 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.098
- Equilibrium temperature
- 164.38 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,001
- Discovery facility
- Lick Observatory
- Host spectral type
- G0V
- Host temperature
- 5,872 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 1.2133
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 1.06
- Host brightness
- 5.0335 mag
Source:NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Science · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
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Host star
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 45 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1981 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 14 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 2,391 Earth days (about 6.5 years) — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.