HD 159868 b

HD 159868 b is an exoplanet orbiting the yellow dwarf HD 159868 with an orbital period of around 1200 days. Its discovery was made using the radial velocity method and was made in 2007 by Simon O'Toole et al. published. The minimum mass of the object is estimated to be 2 Jupiter masses, the major semi-axis of its orbit to a little more than 2 astronomical units .

Web links

• The exoplanet in the "Encyclopedia of Extrasolar Planets"
• The planet at Planet.ch ( Memento from October 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )