Staburags
HD 118203 b
IAU name «Staburags» — Latvia, 2019 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- HD 118203
- Distance from Earth
- 92.2589 pc (≈ 300.9 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 12.7782
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 680.1528
- Orbital period
- 6.135 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.0713 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.3136
- Equilibrium temperature
- 1,361 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,005
- Discovery facility
- Haute-Provence Observatory
- Host spectral type
- K0 IV
- Host temperature
- 5,742 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 2.04
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 1.27
- Host brightness
- 8.05 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 301 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1725 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 13 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 6.1 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.