HD 87883 isstar in the northernconstellation ofLeo Minor. It is too faint to be viewed with the naked eye, having anapparent visual magnitude of 7.56.^[1] The star is located at a distance of 59.7 light years from theSun based onparallax,^[2] and is drifting further away with aradial velocity of +9.3 km/s.^[4] It has anabsolute magnitude of 6.27.^[5]

This is an ordinaryK-type main-sequence star with astellar classification of K0V.^[3] It has a modest level of chromospheric activity,^[5] and is rotating with a period of 38.6 days.^[5] The star is smaller than the Sun, with 82% of themass of the Sun and 76% of theSun's radius. The age of this star is 9.8 billion years, compared with 4.6 billion years for the Sun. It is radiating 32% of theluminosity of the Sun from itsphotosphere at aneffective temperature of 4,980 K.^[5]

In August 2009, this star was found to have aplanet via theradial velocity method. The orbital solution shows it to be aSuper-Jupiter body in an elliptical orbit with a period of 7.54 yr and a typical separation of3.6 AU. A relatively high deviation on the model fit suggests there may be an additional planetary companion in a close, perturbing orbit of the star.^[5] The orbital parameters of the known planet do not preclude the existence of an Earth-mass planet with a dynamically-stable orbit in thehabitable zone.^[8] Since its orbit is relatively face-on, its true mass deviates significantly from itsminimum mass, at6.31+0.31
−0.32 M_J.^[6][9]

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• K-type main-sequence stars
• Planetary systems with one confirmed planet
• Leo Minor
• Henry Draper Catalogue objects
• Hipparcos objects
• Durchmusterung objects

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