Awohali
GJ 436 b
IAU name «Awohali» — United States, 2022 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- GJ 436
- Distance from Earth
- 9.7532 pc (≈ 31.8 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Neptune-like
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 4.17
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 22.1
- Orbital period
- 2.6439 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.0291 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.13827
- Equilibrium temperature
- 686 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,004
- Discovery facility
- W. M. Keck Observatory
- Host spectral type
- M2.5 V
- Host temperature
- 3,586.11 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 0.455
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.47
- Host brightness
- 10.67 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 32 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1994 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 4.2 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 2.6 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.