Indépendance
HD 1502 b
IAU name «Indépendance» — Haiti, 2019 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- HD 1502
- Distance from Earth
- 190.953 pc (≈ 622.8 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 13.2
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 874.0325
- Orbital period
- 428.5 days
- Semi-major axis
- 1.262 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.031
- Equilibrium temperature
- 458.89 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,011
- Discovery facility
- W. M. Keck Observatory
- Host spectral type
- K0
- Host temperature
- 4,947 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 4.67
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 1.46
- Host brightness
- 8.36 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 623 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1403 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 13 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 428.5 Earth days (about 1.2 years) — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.