Buru
HD 83443 b
IAU name «Buru» — Kenya, 2019 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- HD 83443
- Distance from Earth
- 40.8991 pc (≈ 133.4 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 14.1
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 127.767
- Orbital period
- 2.9856 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.0406 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.012
- Equilibrium temperature
- 1,262.68 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,002
- Discovery facility
- Multiple Observatories
- Host spectral type
- K0 V
- Host temperature
- 5,442 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 0.94
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 1
- Host brightness
- 8.23 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 133 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1893 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 14 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 3 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.