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HD 114762 is a yellow main sequence star. It is located west of Bootes in the dim constellation Coma Berenices. To see it, one needs telescope or good binoculars.

HD 114762 b

HD 114762 b is an unseen companion to HD 11472, discovered in 1989 by David Latham and others. As of 2006, insufficient confirmed measurements exist to determine whether it is a high mass gas planet, with its lowest possible mass being 11 times the mass of Jupiter, or a brown dwarf, with its highest mass around 145 times. It orbits the star around 83.89 days and an orbital eccentricity of 0.34.

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