HD 140913
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HD 140913 is a star very much like our own Sun located in the constellation Corona Borealis
Corona Borealis
Corona Borealis is a small constellation in the northern sky. Its name is Latin for "northern crown", a name inspired by its shape; its main stars form a semicircular arc. It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy and remains one of the 88 modern...

 (The Northern Crown) 156 light years
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 away.

The space velocity components of this star are = .

Companion

HD 140913 has a companion called HD 140913 B discovered in 1996. A brown dwarf which is 46 times as massive as 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,...

. It orbits about every 148 days. Its orbital eccentricity
Orbital eccentricity
The orbital eccentricity of an astronomical body is the amount by which its orbit deviates from a perfect circle, where 0 is perfectly circular, and 1.0 is a parabola, and no longer a closed orbit...

 is 0.61 and its semimajor axis is 0.54 AU
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