79 Ceti b explained

79 Ceti b
Discoverer:California and
Carnegie Planet Search
Discovery Site:W. M. Keck Observatory
Discovered:March 29, 2000
Discovery Method:Doppler spectroscopy
Apsis:astron
Semimajor:0.363±
Eccentricity:0.252±0.052
Period:75.523±0.055 d
Time Periastron:2,450,338.0±3.0
Arg Peri:42±14
Semi-Amplitude:11.99±0.87
Star:79 Ceti
Mass:>0.260±0.028

79 Ceti b (also known as HD 16141 b) is an extrasolar planet orbiting 79 Ceti every 75 days. Discovered along with HD 46375 b on March 29, 2000, it was the joint first known extrasolar planet to have minimum mass less than the mass of Saturn.

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