HD 30177

HD 30177 is an approximately 172 light-years distant main sequence star of spectral type G8 in the constellation Doradus. It has an apparent magnitude of 8.4 mag.

In 2002, Paul Butler using the radial velocity method discovered a potential extrasolar planet orbiting this star. This bears the systematic name HD 30177 b.

HD 30177 b

HD 30177 b is a potential exoplanet, orbiting the central star every 2770 days. It orbits its star at a distance about 3.95 Astronomical Units from at an eccentricity of 0.19 and has a mass of at least about 10 Jupiter masses.