Planetary System
On May 4, 2000, the Geneva Extrasolar Planet Search Team announced the discovery of a 3 MJ planet in a 226 day orbit. Three years later on June 30, 2003, the same two teams using the same method discovered a 3.5 MJ second planet orbiting about halfway between the distances of Mars and Jupiter (or in the middle of the asteroid belt) in the solar system from the star.
| Companion |
Mass | Semimajor axis |
Orbital period |
Eccentricity | Radius |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| b | >2.88 MJ | 0.81 | 225.62 ± 0.22 | 0.31 ± 0.01 | — |
| c | >4.04 MJ | 3.60 | 2102 ± 264 | 0.33 ± 0.02 | — |
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