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HD 179949 b

89.55 light-years

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Discovery
Radial Velocity · 2000
Radius
13.9 Earth radii
Mass
291.12 (+24.154 / −24.154) Earth masses
Orbital period
3.0925 (+3.2 × 10⁻⁵ / −3.2 × 10⁻⁵) days
Semi-major axis
0.0443 (+2.6 × 10⁻³ / −2.6 × 10⁻³) AU
Equilibrium temperature
1,590.53 K
Mass provenance
Msini

Measurements may come from different studies and need not form one self-consistent model. “Msini” is a minimum mass; a mass inferred from radius is an estimate. Equilibrium temperature is a model estimate, not a measured surface temperature or evidence of habitability.

NASA archive record and references ↗

Snapshot retrieved: 2026-10-11T04:15:07.688253+00:00