Mastika
HD 179949 b
IAU name «Mastika» — Brunei, 2019 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- HD 179949
- Distance from Earth
- 27.4573 pc (≈ 89.6 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 13.9
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 291.12
- Orbital period
- 3.0925 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.0443 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.022
- Equilibrium temperature
- 1,590.53 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,000
- Discovery facility
- Anglo-Australian Telescope
- Host spectral type
- F8 V
- Host temperature
- 6,168 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 1.2669
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 1.21
- Host brightness
- 6.25 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 90 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1936 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 14 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 3.1 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.