Wolf 1061 b | |
Discoverer: | University of New South Wales, Australia |
Discovery Site: | European Southern Observatory |
Discovered: | December 18, 2015 |
Apsis: | astron |
Semimajor: | 0.035509 (± 7e-06)[1] AU |
Eccentricity: | 0 |
Period: | 4.8876 (± 0.0014) d |
Mean Radius: | ≥1.44 |
Mass: | ≥1.36[2] |
Wolf 1061b is an exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star Wolf 1061 in the Ophiuchus constellation, about 13.8 light years from Earth. It is the first planet in order from its host star in a triple planetary system, and has an orbital period of nearly 5 days. The planet orbits too close to its star for it to be in the habitable zone.[3]