Discovery status Confirmed | ||
Discovery date 2009 (as a Brown Dwarf), 2016 (as an exoplanet) Discoverer(s) K. L. Cruz, J. D. Kirkpatrick, A. J. Burgasser | ||
2MASS J21265040−8140293, also known as 2MASS J2126−8140, is an exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star TYC 9486-927-1 (2MASS J21252752-8138278), 24.75 (± 4.25) parsecs away. It has both the longest (~900 thousand years) and the widest orbit for a planetary mass object known (>4,500AU). Its estimated mass, age, spectral type, and Teff are similar to the well-studied planet β Pictoris b.
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