Cuancoá
LTT 9779 b
IAU name «Cuancoá» — Colombia, 2022 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- LTT 9779
- Distance from Earth
- 80.4373 pc (≈ 262.4 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Neptune-like
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 4.72
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 29.32
- Orbital period
- 0.792052 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.01679 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0
- Equilibrium temperature
- 1,978 K
- Discovery method
- Transit
- Discovery year
- 2,020
- Discovery facility
- Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
- Host spectral type
- G7 V
- Host temperature
- 5,443 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 0.949
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 1.02
- Host brightness
- 9.79 mag
Source:NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Science · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
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Host star
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 262 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1764 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 4.7 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 19 hours — more than 1.3 orbits a day.
Worked out from this object's official values.