Equiano
HD 43197 b
IAU name «Equiano» — Nigeria, 2019 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- HD 43197
- Distance from Earth
- 62.4112 pc (≈ 203.6 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 14.2
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 175.7591
- Orbital period
- 308.9207 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.882 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.742
- Equilibrium temperature
- 282.81 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,010
- Discovery facility
- La Silla Observatory
- Host spectral type
- G8 V
- Host temperature
- 5,508 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 1
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.96
- Host brightness
- 8.98 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 204 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1822 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 14 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 308.9 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.