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Ahra

Maru b, WD 0806-661 b, Luyten 97-3 b, Gliese 3483 b

Extrasolar planet in Volans

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Proper Name	Ahra
Designations	Maru b, WD 0806-661 b, Luyten 97-3 b, Gliese 3483 b
Classification	Sub-brown dwarf or gas giant
Orbital Period	158,795 years
Mean Distance from Maru	374 billion km 2,500 AU
Mass	8.0 x Jupiter
Diameter	Not known
Temperature	340 K (67°C)
Parent star	Maru (WD 0806-661), white dwarf in Volans
Other planets in this system	None

The pair of coloured dots, orange and blue, towards the west (right) of this image represent the white dwarf Maru or WD 0806-661, Ahra's parent body. Ahra itself pursues a wide orbit around this star with a semi-major axis of 2,500 AU (more than eighty times the distance of Neptune from the Sun). This orbit is so wide, indeed, that the two objects are separated from one another by several arcminutes in the sky. Imagery provided by Aladin sky atlas

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