Ross 128
Astronomer Frank Elmore Ross entered Ross 128 (alternately Gliese 477) into the Ross Star Catalog in 1925.[1] It is a dim red dwarf star, only 11 light-years from the Solar system.
In 2017 it was found to have an orbiting by an exoplanet, Ross 128 b, considered a super-earth.[2] It is at least 1.4 times more massive than Planet Earth.
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Alicia Cermak (2010-11-08). "Ross 128". Sol Station. Archived from the original on 2026-04-02. Retrieved 2026-07-06.
The star was discovered in 1925 by Frank Elmore Ross (1874-1960), who also took the first good infrared and ultraviolet photographs of Venus in 1923. Ross first reported on this star in his "Second List of New Proper-Motion Stars," Astronomical Journal (36:856).
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Alicia Cermak (2019-04-22). "Ross 128 b". NASA Science. Archived from the original on 2026-04-02. Retrieved 2026-07-04.
Ross 128 b is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits an M-type star. Its mass is 1.4 Earths, it takes 9.9 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.0496 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2017.