Extrasolarplanet: | yes |
OGLE-2018-BLG-0799Lb | |
Apsis: | astron |
Discovery Site: | OGLE |
Discovered: | October 2020 (published August 2022) |
Discovery Method: | Gravitional Microlensing |
Mass: | 0.22 |
OGLE-2018-BLG-0799Lb is a sub-Saturn-mass exoplanet discovered by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) collaboration, through a gravitational microlensing event that occurred in May 2018. The discovery was announced in October 2020, and published in August 2022.
It has a mass of 0.22 Jupiter masses and is 14,400 light years away from earth. It orbits a dwarf star of approximately 0.08 solar masses.[1]