Xolotlan
HD 4208 b
IAU name «Xolotlan» — Nicaragua, 2019 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- HD 4208
- Distance from Earth
- 34.1937 pc (≈ 111.5 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 13.9
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 257.4423
- Orbital period
- 832.97 days
- Semi-major axis
- 1.662 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.042
- Equilibrium temperature
- 196.68 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,001
- Discovery facility
- W. M. Keck Observatory
- Host spectral type
- G7 V Fe-1 CH-0.5
- Host temperature
- 5,717 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 0.846
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.883
- Host brightness
- 7.783 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 112 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1914 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 14 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 833 Earth days (about 2.3 years) — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.