79 Ceti b

Planetbox begin
name = 79 Ceti b Planetbox image

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caption = An artist's conception of 79 Ceti b Planetbox orbit
name = 79 Ceti b
semimajor = 0.363±0.021
eccentricity = 0.252±0.052
period = 75.523±0.055
ang_dist = 10
long_peri = 42±14
t_peri = 2,450,338.0±3.0
semi-amp = 11.99±0.87 Planetbox character
mass = >0.260±0.028 Planetbox discovery
discovery_date = March 29, 2000
discoverers = Marcy et al.
discovery_site = Calif., USA
discovery_method = Doppler Spectroscopy
discovery_status=Published

79 Ceti b (also known as "HD 16141 b") is an extrasolar planet orbiting its star every 75 days. With HD 46375 b on March 29, 2000, it was the first known extrasolar planet to have minimum mass less than one Saturn.

ee also

*79 Ceti
*94 Ceti b
*HD 46375 b

References

*cite journal | url=http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/312723 | author=Marcy "et al."| title=Sub-Saturn Planetary Candidates of HD 16141 and HD 46375 | journal=The Astrophysical Journal | year=2000 | volume=536 | issue=1 | pages=L43 – L46| doi=10.1086/312723
*cite journal | url=http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/504701 | author=Butler "et al." | title=Catalog of Nearby Exoplanets | journal=The Astrophysical Journal | volume=646 | issue=1 | pages=505 – 522 | year=2006 | doi=10.1086/504701 ( [http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0607493 web Preprint] )

External links

* [http://www.solstation.com/stars2/79ceti.htm SolStation: 79 Ceti]
* [http://exoplanet.eu/star.php?st=HD+16141 Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia: HD 16141]
* [http://www.extrasolar.net/planettour.asp?StarCatId=normal&PlanetId=128 Extrasolar Visions: 79 Ceti b]