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HD 40979 b

111.18 light-years

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Discovery
Radial Velocity · 2002
Radius
12.9 Earth radii
Mass
1,484.2661 (+108.0622 / −108.0622) Earth masses
Orbital period
264.15 (+0.23 / −0.23) days
Semi-major axis
0.85 (+0.01 / −0.01) AU
Equilibrium temperature
354.69 (+3.87 / −3.87) K
Mass provenance
Msini

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