HD 66428 b

HD 66428 b is a long-period jovian exoplanet located approximately 179.3 light-years away in the constellation of Monoceros. It has a mass of >2.82 MJ and takes 1973 days or 5.402 years to orbit around its solar-type star HD 66428. The average distance is 3.18 AU, about half the distance between Mars and Jupiter. This planet is a so-called eccentric Jupiter with an orbital eccentricity of 0.465. At periastron, the distance is 1.70 AU and at apastron, the distance is 4.66 AU.
==See also==
* HD 70642 b
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Category:Exoplanets
Category:Monoceros (constellation)
Category:Gas giants
Category:Exoplanets discovered in 2006
Category:Exoplanets detected by radial velocity