Tanzanite
WASP-71 b
IAU name «Tanzanite» — Tanzania, 2019 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- WASP-71
- Distance from Earth
- 362.715 pc (≈ 1,183 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 13.2266
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 441.7837
- Orbital period
- 2.9037 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.046 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0
- Equilibrium temperature
- 2,016.1 K
- Discovery method
- Transit
- Discovery year
- 2,012
- Discovery facility
- SuperWASP
- Host spectral type
- F8
- Host temperature
- 6,050 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 1.82
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.76
- Host brightness
- 10.56 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 1,183 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 843 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 13 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 2.9 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.