Gliese 581 b

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Gliese 581 b

Summary

Gliese 581 b is an exoplanet[1]. It draws 19 Wikipedia views per month (exoplanet category, ranking #81 of 578).[2]

Key Facts

  • Gliese 581 b is credited with the discovery of High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher[3].
  • Gliese 581 b's image is recorded as Planet Gliese 581 b.png[4].
  • Gliese 581 b's instance of is recorded as exoplanet[5].
  • Gliese 581 b's constellation is recorded as Libra[6].
  • Gliese 581 b's Commons category is recorded as Gliese 581 b[7].
  • Gliese 581 b's parent astronomical body is recorded as Gliese 581[8].
  • Gliese 581 b's catalog code is recorded as GJ 581 b[9].
  • Gliese 581 b's catalog code is recorded as BD-07 4003b[10].
  • Gliese 581 b's catalog code is recorded as TIC 36853511b[11].
  • Gliese 581 b's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2005-08-22T00:00:00Z[12].
  • Gliese 581 b's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2005-12-00T00:00:00Z[13].
  • Gliese 581 b's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cvcnb[14].
  • Gliese 581 b's discovery method is recorded as Doppler spectroscopy[15].
  • Gliese 581 b's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.02'}[16].
  • Gliese 581 b's apparent magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+10.55'}[17].
  • Gliese 581 b's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+47'}[18].
  • Gliese 581 b's M sin i is recorded as {'unit': 'Q651336', 'amount': '+0.0511'}[19].
  • Gliese 581 b's mass is recorded as {'unit': 'Q651336', 'amount': '+0.0645'}[20].
  • Gliese 581 b's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+5.36879'}[21].
  • Gliese 581 b's angular distance is recorded as {'unit': 'Q829073', 'amount': '+0.006602'}[22].
  • Gliese 581 b's parallax is recorded as {'unit': 'Q21500224', 'amount': '+158.7492'}[23].
  • Gliese 581 b's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+0.04099'}[24].
  • Gliese 581 b's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+9.2'}[25].
  • Gliese 581 b's SIMBAD ID is recorded as BD-07 4003b[26].
  • Gliese 581 b's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["Exoplanet", "GJ581b"][27].

Body

Designation and Status

Gliese 581 b's instance of is recorded as exoplanet[5].

History and Context

Catalog codes include GJ 581 b[9], BD-07 4003b[10], and TIC 36853511b[11].

Why It Matters

Gliese 581 b draws 19 Wikipedia views per month (exoplanet category, ranking #81 of 578).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . SIMBAD. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Exoplanet Archive. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. VI. A Neptune-mass planet around the nearby M dwarf Gl 581. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. VI. A Neptune-mass planet around the nearby M dwarf Gl 581. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . The California Legacy Survey. I. A Catalog of 178 Planets from Precision Radial Velocity Monitoring of 719 Nearby Stars over Three Decades. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. 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] . Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . The California Legacy Survey. I. A Catalog of 178 Planets from Precision Radial Velocity Monitoring of 719 Nearby Stars over Three Decades. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Gaia Data Release 2. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . The California Legacy Survey. I. A Catalog of 178 Planets from Precision Radial Velocity Monitoring of 719 Nearby Stars over Three Decades. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . The California Legacy Survey. I. A Catalog of 178 Planets from Precision Radial Velocity Monitoring of 719 Nearby Stars over Three Decades. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . 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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