16 Cygni Bb

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16 Cygni Bb

Summary

16 Cygni Bb is an exoplanet[1]. It ranks in the top 10% of exoplanet entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (47 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • 16 Cygni Bb's image is recorded as 16 Cygni B b.png[3].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's image is recorded as 16 Cygni sunset.jpg[4].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's instance of is recorded as exoplanet[5].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's constellation is recorded as Cygnus[6].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's Commons category is recorded as 16 Cygni B b[7].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's parent astronomical body is recorded as 16 Cygni B[8].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's catalog code is recorded as TIC 27533327b[9].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1996-10-22T00:00:00Z[10].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1997-07-00T00:00:00Z[11].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0f1471[12].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's discovery method is recorded as Doppler spectroscopy[13].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.6832'}[14].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's M sin i is recorded as {'unit': 'Q651336', 'amount': '+1.752'}[15].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's mass is recorded as {'unit': 'Q651336', 'amount': '+1.64'}[16].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+799.45'}[17].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's parallax is recorded as {'unit': 'Q21500224', 'amount': '+47.2754'}[18].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.676'}[19].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+82.74'}[20].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's SIMBAD ID is recorded as * 16 Cyg Bb[21].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["Exoplanet", "16CygniBb"][22].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia exoplanet ID is recorded as 16_cyg_bb--78[23].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's NASA Exoplanet Archive ID is recorded as 16 Cyg B b[24].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's right ascension is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+295.46655492939584'}[25].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's declination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+50.51752392422833'}[26].
  • 16 Cygni Bb's epoch is recorded as J2000.0[27].

Body

Designation and Status

16 Cygni Bb's instance of is recorded as exoplanet[5].

History and Context

16 Cygni Bb's catalog code is recorded as TIC 27533327b[9].

Why It Matters

16 Cygni Bb ranks in the top 10% of exoplanet entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (47 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Exoplanet Archive. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . The Discovery of a Planetary Companion to 16 Cygni B. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . The Discovery of a Planetary Companion to 16 Cygni B. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . The California Legacy Survey. I. A Catalog of 178 Planets from Precision Radial Velocity Monitoring of 719 Nearby Stars over Three Decades. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . The California Legacy Survey. I. A Catalog of 178 Planets from Precision Radial Velocity Monitoring of 719 Nearby Stars over Three Decades. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . The California Legacy Survey. I. A Catalog of 178 Planets from Precision Radial Velocity Monitoring of 719 Nearby Stars over Three Decades. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Gaia Data Release 2. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . The California Legacy Survey. I. A Catalog of 178 Planets from Precision Radial Velocity Monitoring of 719 Nearby Stars over Three Decades. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . The California Legacy Survey. I. A Catalog of 178 Planets from Precision Radial Velocity Monitoring of 719 Nearby Stars over Three Decades. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Gaia Data Release 2. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Gaia Data Release 2. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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