Quijote
HD 160691 b
IAU name «Quijote» — Spain, 2015 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- HD 160691
- Distance from Earth
- 15.5981 pc (≈ 50.9 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 1,366.6622
- Orbital period
- 645 days
- Semi-major axis
- 1.5 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.0505
- Equilibrium temperature
- 262.13 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,000
- Discovery facility
- Anglo-Australian Telescope
- Host spectral type
- G3 IV-V
- Host temperature
- 5,773 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 1.33
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 1.13
- Host brightness
- 5.12 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 51 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1975 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- One orbit takes about 645 Earth days (about 1.8 years) — that is this planet's year.
- Equilibrium temperature about -11 °C (262 K − 273.15) — water freezes at 0 °C and boils at 100 °C.
Worked out from this object's official values.