Nakanbé
HD 30856 b
IAU name «Nakanbé» — Burkina Faso, 2019 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- HD 30856
- Distance from Earth
- 131.199 pc (≈ 427.9 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 13.5
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 491.683
- Orbital period
- 847 days
- Semi-major axis
- 1.85 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.061
- Equilibrium temperature
- 364.02 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,011
- Discovery facility
- W. M. Keck Observatory
- Host spectral type
- K0 III
- Host temperature
- 4,895 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 4.4
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 1.17
- Host brightness
- 7.91 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 428 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1598 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 14 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 847 Earth days (about 2.3 years) — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.