Finlay
BD-17 63 b
IAU name «Finlay» — Cuba, 2019 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- BD-17 63
- Distance from Earth
- 34.4603 pc (≈ 112.4 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 12.8
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 1,639.9946
- Orbital period
- 655.57 days
- Semi-major axis
- 1.34 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.5439
- Equilibrium temperature
- 168.92 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,008
- Discovery facility
- La Silla Observatory
- Host spectral type
- K5 V
- Host temperature
- 4,714 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 0.74
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.741
- Host brightness
- 9.62 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 112 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1914 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 13 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 655.6 Earth days (about 1.8 years) — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.