Ugarit
HD 218566 b
IAU name «Ugarit» — Syria, 2019 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- HD 218566
- Distance from Earth
- 28.8274 pc (≈ 94 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 9.32
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 63.566
- Orbital period
- 225.7 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.69 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.3
- Equilibrium temperature
- 253.15 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,010
- Discovery facility
- W. M. Keck Observatory
- Host spectral type
- K3V
- Host temperature
- 4,730 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 0.85
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.76
- Host brightness
- 8.6 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 94 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1932 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 9.3 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 225.7 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.