Barajeel
HIP 79431 b
IAU name «Barajeel» — United Arab Emirates, 2019 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- HIP 79431
- Distance from Earth
- 14.5324 pc (≈ 47.4 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 13.4
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 667.415
- Orbital period
- 111.7 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.36 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.29
- Equilibrium temperature
- 177.42 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,009
- Discovery facility
- W. M. Keck Observatory
- Host spectral type
- M3 V
- Host temperature
- 3,191 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 0.478625
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.49
- Host brightness
- 11.394 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 47 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1979 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 13 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 111.7 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.