HD 171028 b

HD 171028 b is an exoplanet, the yellow dwarf HD 171028 orbits every 538 days. Due to its high mass is assumed that it is a gas planet.

Discovery

As the majority of exoplanets was also discovered that using the radial velocity method. The planet was Nuno C. Santos et al. discovered in 2007.

Circulation and mass

The planet orbits its star at a distance of 1.29 astronomical units and has a mass of about 581.8 Earth masses and 1.83 Jupiter masses.