Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 13.00 Earth radii
A mass of 1,188.68 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 7.03 g
An orbital period of 4,375.000 days
Semi-major axis 5.1500 AU
Distance from Earth 235.55 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.413
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 4,153,893 years

HD 95872 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

13.00 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

1.160 R♃

Mass

1,188.68 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

3.740 M♃

Density

2.97 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

7.03 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.413

HZ Position Unknown

Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2015

Method Radial Velocity

Facility Multiple Facilities

Telescope Multiple Telescopes

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#960of 1771

top 54.2%

This planet

13.00R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

HIP 14810 b 13.00 R⊕ HD 47186 c 13.00 R⊕ WASP-107 c 13.00 R⊕

Metric	Earth	HD 95872 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	13.00	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	1,188.68	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	2.97	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	7.03	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	—	0.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method	Value	Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i)	1,188.684 M⊕	Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

HD 95872

TIC

TIC 52198580

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 3537576785745979904

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 3537576785745979904

System

HD 95872

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 13.000 R⊕ · percentile 43 / cohort 1771

Mass 1,188.684 M⊕ · percentile 70 / cohort 1747

Orbital period 4,375.00 d · percentile 91 / cohort 1533

Distance 72.22 pc · percentile 28 / cohort 1759

ESI 0.413 · percentile 89 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

4,375.000 days

Semi-major axis

5.1500 AU

Eccentricity

0.060

Inclination

— °

Year Length

A year here lasts about 11.98 Earth years on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 5.1500 AU.

Eq. Temperature

—

Insolation (S⊕)

—

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.413

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Endl et al. 2016

Instrument

Multiple Instruments

Publication

2016-02

Observation locale

Ground

Host System: HD 95872

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

5,312 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

10.00 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.840 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.700 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.41

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.430 dex

Stellar density

1.521 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

1.72 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

72.22 parsec

Light-years 235.55 ly

V-band magnitude

9.96 mag

Voyager-speed travel 4,153,893 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 11 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

13.818 mas

Total Proper Motion

263.013 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-250.47 mas/yr

PM Declination

-80.26 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.899 · y = 0.226 · z = -0.376

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 165.86588° · Dec -22.09433°

Galactic ℓ, b

272.335° · 34.283°

Ecliptic λ, β

176.304° · -25.791°

HTM-20 index

1015338830

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