GJ 86 b
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- GJ 86
- Distance from Earth
- 10.7836 pc (≈ 35.2 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 12.9
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 1,404.8086
- Orbital period
- 15.7649 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.11 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.04
- Equilibrium temperature
- 661.12 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 1,999
- Discovery facility
- La Silla Observatory
- Host spectral type
- K1V
- Host temperature
- 5,182 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 0.77
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.93
- Host brightness
- 6.12 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 ↗
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 35 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1991 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 13 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 15.8 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.