HD 20782

HD 20782 is an approximately 116 light-years distant, sun-like star in the constellation Fornax. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 7.4 mag. The star is surrounded by an exoplanet with the systematic name HD 20782 b with an orbital period of about 600 days.

Planetary companion

HD 20782 b is located in a highly elliptical orbit with an eccentricity of 0.93 and a semimajor axis of about 1.4 astronomical units. The minimum mass is below 2 Jupiter masses; This suggests that it is a gas planet. The object was discovered using the radial velocity method.