HD 72659 b

HD 72659 b is an exoplanet orbiting the yellow dwarf HD 72659 with an orbital period of approximately 8.7 years. It was suggested by Butler et al. Discovered in 2002 using the radial velocity method. The exoplanet orbits its star at a distance of approx. 4 astronomical units with an eccentricity of 0.2 and has a mass of at least about 3 Jupiter's 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 )