Veles
HD 75898 b
IAU name «Veles» — Croatia, 2019 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- HD 75898
- Distance from Earth
- 78.0505 pc (≈ 254.6 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 13.2
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 810.4624
- Orbital period
- 422.82 days
- Semi-major axis
- 1.2025 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.105
- Equilibrium temperature
- 335.16 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,007
- Discovery facility
- W. M. Keck Observatory
- Host spectral type
- F8 V
- Host temperature
- 6,122 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 1.55
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 1.295
- Host brightness
- 8.03 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 255 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1771 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 13 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 422.8 Earth days (about 1.2 years) — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.