Viriato
HD 45652 b
IAU name «Viriato» — Portugal, 2019 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- HD 45652
- Distance from Earth
- 34.8541 pc (≈ 113.7 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 14.3
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 137.6204
- Orbital period
- 44.073 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.237 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.607
- Equilibrium temperature
- 508.4 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,008
- Discovery facility
- Haute-Provence Observatory
- Host spectral type
- G8/K0
- Host temperature
- 5,294 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 0.94
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.92
- Host brightness
- 8.1 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 114 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1912 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 14 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 44.1 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.