HD 89744 b is an eccentric Jupiter extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 89744.[1]
| Discovery[1] | |
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| Discovered by | Korzennik et al. |
| Discovery site | Whipple Observatory |
| Discovery date | 2000 |
Detection method | Doppler spectroscopy |
| Orbital characteristics[2] | |
Semi-major axis | 0.917±0.009 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.677±0.003 |
Orbital period (sidereal) | 256.78±0.02 d |
Argument of perihelion | 193.7±0.4 º |
| Semi-amplitude | 269.66±1.45 m/s |
| Star | HD 89744 |
| Physical characteristics[2] | |
| Mass | ≥8.35±0.18 MJ |
In a simulation of a 10 million year span, this planet swept away all test particles "except for a narrow region near the 8:3 resonance". There can be no planets in this star's habitable zone. Observation has ruled out any planet over 0.7 Jupiter mass within a year period.[3]
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