94 Ceti b | |
Discoverer: | Mayor et al. |
Discovered: | August 7, 2000 |
Discovery Method: | Doppler Spectroscopy |
Apsis: | astron |
Semimajor: | 1.427AU |
Eccentricity: | 0.30±0.04 |
Period: | 535.7±3.1 d |
Inclination: | 65 or 115 ±3 |
Time Periastron: | 2,450,944±12 |
Arg Peri: | 41±8 |
Semi-Amplitude: | 36.2±1.9 |
Star: | 94 Ceti |
Mass: | 1.855±0.045 |
94 Ceti b or 94 Ceti Ab to distinguish it from the distant red dwarf companion, is an extrasolar planet orbiting its star once every 1.2 years. It was discovered on August 7, 2000 by a team led by Michel Mayor.
It is most stable if its inclination is about 65 or 115, yielding a mass of about 1.85 that of Jupiter.