HD 20868 is a star in the southern constellationFornax. With an apparent visual magnitude of 9.92,[2] it is much too dim to be visible to the naked eye. Parallax measurements give a distance estimate of 156 light years from the Sun. It is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +46.2 km/s,[1] having come to within about 124 ly around 312,000 years ago.[2]
In October 2008 a planet, HD 20868 b, was discovered. This object was detected using the radial velocity method by search programs conducted using the HARPS spectrograph. The orbital solution indicates this is a giant planet in a highly elliptical orbit around the host star.[10]
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^ abcCutri, R. M.; et al. (June 2003). 2MASS All Sky Catalog of point sources. NASA/IPAC. Bibcode:2003tmc..book.....C.