Planetary System
The detection of a suspected extrasolar planet Pollux b was announced on June 16, 2006. Pollux b is calculated to have a mass at least 2.3 times that of Jupiter. It is orbiting Pollux with a period of about 590 days.
| Companion |
Mass | Semimajor axis |
Orbital period |
Eccentricity | Radius |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| b | >2.30 ± 0.45 MJ | 1.64 ± 0.27 | 589.64 ± 0.81 | 0.02 ± 0.03 | — |
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