Michelmayor

(2001 UD6 )

NOW @ 10 VIR 40

Inclination: 8.141

Eccentricity: 0.147

Period: 3.572 years

AU 2.337

Type: 0000

Discovery Chart

19.10.2001 00:00 Vicques 24e45 59n26 observations 1

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Michel Mayor (b. 1942) is a Swiss astrophysicist at Geneva University. In 1995, with Didier Queloz, he discovered the first extrasolar planet. This Jupiter-mass planet, 51 Peg b, has an orbital period of 4.2 days.

Discovered on 19-10-2001 in Vicques by Ory, M.
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