AEgir
eps Eri b
IAU name «AEgir» — USA, 2015 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- eps Eri
- Distance from Earth
- 3.2026 pc (≈ 10.4 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 13.8
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 317.8284
- Orbital period
- 2,680 days
- Semi-major axis
- 3.53 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.06
- Equilibrium temperature
- 112.26 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,000
- Discovery facility
- Multiple Observatories
- Host spectral type
- K2 V
- Host temperature
- 5,020.38 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 0.759106
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.82
- Host brightness
- 3.7155 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 10 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 2016 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 14 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 2,680 Earth days (about 7.3 years) — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.