Aumatex
HIP 12961 b
IAU name «Aumatex» — Puerto Rico, 2019 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- HIP 12961
- Distance from Earth
- 23.371 pc (≈ 76.2 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 13.2
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 114.4188
- Orbital period
- 57.435 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.25 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.17
- Equilibrium temperature
- 303.32 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,010
- Discovery facility
- La Silla Observatory
- Host spectral type
- M0
- Host temperature
- 3,901 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 0.65
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.69
- Host brightness
- 10.25 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 76 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1950 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 13 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 57.4 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.