HD 3651 b
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- HD 3651
- Distance from Earth
- 11.1336 pc (≈ 36.3 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 10.1
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 72.4652
- Orbital period
- 62.25 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.295 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.645
- Equilibrium temperature
- 432.84 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,003
- Discovery facility
- Multiple Observatories
- Host spectral type
- K0 V
- Host temperature
- 5,221 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 0.871954
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.799
- Host brightness
- 5.8844 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 ↗
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 36 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1990 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 10 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 62.3 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.