HD 125612 b

HD 125612 b is an extrasolar planet which orbits the G-type main sequence star HD 125612, located approximately 188 light years away in the constellation Virgo. This planet was detected using the doppler spectroscopy method and the discovery was first announced in a paper submitted to the arXiv preprint repository on April 10, 2007.^[2]

HD 125612 b

Discovery
Discovered by	Fischer et al.
Discovery site	California, United States
Discovery date	April 10, 2007
Detection method	Radial velocity
Orbital characteristics
Semi-major axis	1.372±0.083 AU
Eccentricity	0.4553±0.0055[1]
Orbital period (sidereal)	557.04±0.35[1] d
Time of periastron	2463221.8±1.7[1]
Argument of periastron	42.0±1.0[1]
Semi-amplitude	80.46±0.53[1]
Star	HD 125612

Planet HD 125612 b