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Tau1 Gruis B

Tau Gruis b, also known as HD 216435 b, is an extrasolar planet approximately 109 light-years away in the constellation of Grus (the Crane). The planet was discovered orbiting the star Tau Gruis in September 2002. It was calculated that the planet orbits its sun at an average distance of 2.7 astronomical units. The planet is over 1.25 times as massive as Jupiter.

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  • Jones; Butler, R. Paul; Tinney, C. G.; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; Penny, Alan J.; McCarthy, Chris; Carter, Brad D. (2003). "An exoplanet in orbit around τ1 Gruis". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 341 (3): 948–952. arXiv:astro-ph/0209302. Bibcode:2003MNRAS.341..948J. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06481.x. S2CID 1575040. (web Preprint)