Banksia
WASP-19 b
IAU name «Banksia» — Australia, 2022 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- WASP-19
- Distance from Earth
- 268.325 pc (≈ 875.2 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 15.8607
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 366.774
- Orbital period
- 0.788839 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.01652 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.0126
- Equilibrium temperature
- 2,113 K
- Discovery method
- Transit
- Discovery year
- 2,009
- Discovery facility
- SuperWASP
- Host spectral type
- G8 V
- Host temperature
- 5,616 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 1.006
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.965
- Host brightness
- 12.248 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 875 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1151 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 16 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 18.9 hours — more than 1.3 orbits a day.
Worked out from this object's official values.