HD 17156 b

HD 17156 b is an exoplanet orbiting the yellow subgiant HD 17156 every 21.2 days . It was developed by Debra Fischer et al. Discovered in 2007 using the radial velocity method.

The planet orbits its star at a distance of approx. 0.15 astronomical units with an eccentricity of 0.67 and has a minimum mass of approx. 3.1 Jupiter masses (approx. 980 earth masses ).

Web links

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