Queloz

(2004 CK3 )

NOW @ 20 LEO 54

Inclination: 9.316

Eccentricity: 0.133

Period: 4.216 years

AU 2.61

Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

9.2.2004 00:00 Vicques 24e45 59n26 observations 1

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Didier Queloz (b. 1966) is a Swiss astrophysicist at Geneva University. In 1995, with Michel Mayor, he discovered the first extrasolar planet. This planet, 51 Peg b, has an orbital period of 4.2 days and about the mass of Jupiter.

Discovered on 9-2-2004 in Vicques by Ory, M.
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