Ganja
HD 152581 b
IAU name «Ganja» — Azerbaijan, 2019 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- HD 152581
- Distance from Earth
- 165.76 pc (≈ 540.6 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 13.4
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 594.0243
- Orbital period
- 686.5 days
- Semi-major axis
- 1.66 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.04
- Equilibrium temperature
- 426.55 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,011
- Discovery facility
- W. M. Keck Observatory
- Host spectral type
- K0
- Host temperature
- 5,027 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 5.14
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 1.3
- Host brightness
- 8.38 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 541 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1485 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 13 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 686.5 Earth days (about 1.9 years) — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.