HD 93385 [SEP] constellation
HD 93385
HD 93385 is a star in the southern constellation of Vela. At an apparent visual magnitude of 7.5, it is too faint to be seen with the unaided eye. Parallax measurements made using the Hipparcos satellite show an annual shift of 23.70 milli-arcseconds. This is equivalent to a physical separation of around 138 light years from the Sun.
This is an ordinary main sequence star with a stellar classification of G2/G3 V. The physical properties of HD 93385 are similar to those of the Sun
with a planet 42 times as massive as earth orbiting every 788 days.
HD 93385 is a Sun-like star of spectral type G2/G3V located around 138 light-years away that is orbited by two super-earths with periods of 13 and 46 days and masses 8.3 and 10.1 times that of Earth, respectively.
Features Brown dwarfs.
The discovery of a binary brown dwarf system named Luhman 16 only 6.6 light-years away, the third-closest system to the Solar System, was announced on 11