HD 122430 b
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HD 122430 b is a giant planet orbiting around the giant star
HD 122430
. It has a mass at least 3.71 times that of Jupiter
. This planet located at a distance of 1.02 astronomical unit
s away from its star, which is very similar to the Earth’s distance from the Sun. Despite of this, the higher luminosity of the star implies it is heated much more strongly than the Earth is. Its orbit is highly eccentric, around 68%. At periastron, the orbital distance from its parent star is 0.33 AU. At apastron, the distance is 1.71 AU. If this planet were located in our own solar system
, its orbit would ranges from just within Mercury’s
orbit to just beyond Mars
’s orbit.
In Spain
, Setiawan discovered this planet in 2003, using the radial velocity method.
Giant star
A giant star is a star with substantially larger radius and luminosity than a main sequence star of the same surface temperature. Typically, giant stars have radii between 10 and 100 solar radii and luminosities between 10 and 1,000 times that of the Sun. Stars still more luminous than giants are...
HD 122430
HD 122430
HD 122430 is an orange giant star about 440 light years away in the constellation of Hydra on the celestial sphere. The star has completely run out of the hydrogen fuel that keeps it stable, although its age is only 3.1 billion years old, younger than the Sun’s 4.6 billion years. HD 122430 has a...
. It has a mass at least 3.71 times that of Jupiter
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn,...
. This planet located at a distance of 1.02 astronomical unit
Astronomical unit
An astronomical unit is a unit of length equal to about or approximately the mean Earth–Sun distance....
s away from its star, which is very similar to the Earth’s distance from the Sun. Despite of this, the higher luminosity of the star implies it is heated much more strongly than the Earth is. Its orbit is highly eccentric, around 68%. At periastron, the orbital distance from its parent star is 0.33 AU. At apastron, the distance is 1.71 AU. If this planet were located in our own solar system
Solar System
The Solar System consists of the Sun and the astronomical objects gravitationally bound in orbit around it, all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago. The vast majority of the system's mass is in the Sun...
, its orbit would ranges from just within Mercury’s
Mercury (planet)
Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 87.969 Earth days. The orbit of Mercury has the highest eccentricity of all the Solar System planets, and it has the smallest axial tilt. It completes three rotations about its axis for every two orbits...
orbit to just beyond Mars
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after the Roman god of war, Mars. It is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance...
’s orbit.
In Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, Setiawan discovered this planet in 2003, using the radial velocity method.