HD 168746

HD 168746 is an approximately 140 light years from Earth remote main-sequence star of spectral type G5, which lies on the border between the constellations Serpens Cauda, and Scutum. It has an apparent magnitude of 7.95 mag. The star is surrounded by an exoplanet HD 168746 b with the name.

Exoplanet

HD 168746 b orbits the central star with a period of 6.40 days and has a minimum mass of 0.23 Jupiter masses, which corresponds to about 77 % of the mass of Saturn. The exoplanet was discovered using the radial velocity method. Its discovery was in 2002 by Francesco Pepe et al. published.