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HD 209458 b

157.54 light-years

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Discovery
Radial Velocity · 1999
Radius
15.5805 (+0.2242 / −0.2242) Earth radii
Mass
232.0159 (+12.7132 / −12.7132) Earth masses
Orbital period
3.5247 (+3.8 × 10⁻⁷ / −3.8 × 10⁻⁷) days
Semi-major axis
0.0471 (+4.5 × 10⁻⁴ / −4.7 × 10⁻⁴) AU
Equilibrium temperature
1,459 (+12 / −12) K
Mass provenance
Mass

Measurements may come from different studies and need not form one self-consistent model. “Msini” is a minimum mass; a mass inferred from radius is an estimate. Equilibrium temperature is a model estimate, not a measured surface temperature or evidence of habitability.

NASA archive record and references ↗

Snapshot retrieved: 2026-10-11T04:15:07.688253+00:00