HR 8799 B (Paperback)


High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HR 8799 b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 129 light-years away in the constellation of Pegasus, orbiting the 6th magnitude Lambda Bootis star HR 8799. It has a mass between 5 and 11 Jupiter masses and a radius from 10 to 30% larger than Jupiter's. It orbits at 68 AU from HR 8799 with an unknown eccentricity and a period of 460 years, and is the outermost known planet in the HR 8799 system. Along with two other planets orbiting HR 8799, the planet was discovered on November 13, 2008 by Marois et al., using the Keck and Gemini observatories in Hawaii. These planets were discovered using the direct imaging technique

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HR 8799 b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 129 light-years away in the constellation of Pegasus, orbiting the 6th magnitude Lambda Bootis star HR 8799. It has a mass between 5 and 11 Jupiter masses and a radius from 10 to 30% larger than Jupiter's. It orbits at 68 AU from HR 8799 with an unknown eccentricity and a period of 460 years, and is the outermost known planet in the HR 8799 system. Along with two other planets orbiting HR 8799, the planet was discovered on November 13, 2008 by Marois et al., using the Keck and Gemini observatories in Hawaii. These planets were discovered using the direct imaging technique

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Alphascript Publishing

Country of origin

United States

Release date

October 2010

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First published

October 2010

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Dimensions

152 x 229 x 4mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback - Trade

Pages

72

ISBN-13

978-6130860820

Barcode

9786130860820

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613086082X



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