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| Observation data Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0 | |
|---|---|
| Constellation | Cancer |
| Right ascension | 08h 55m 55.54693s [1] |
| Declination | +11° 37′ 33.6990″ [1] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | +5.44 [2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Evolutionary stage | giant |
| Spectral type | K5 III [3] [2] [4] |
| B−V color index | 1.462±0.004 [2] |
| Astrometry | |
| Radial velocity (Rv) | +25.38±0.16 [1] km/s |
| Proper motion (μ) | RA: −15.443 [1] mas/yr Dec.: −13.539 [1] mas/yr |
| Parallax (π) | 3.8596±0.1340 mas [1] |
| Distance | 850 ± 30 ly (259 ± 9 pc) |
| Details | |
| Mass | 1.42±0.45 [5] M☉ |
| Radius | 63 [6] R☉ |
| Luminosity | 1,023 [6] L☉ |
| Surface gravity (log g) | 1.28±0.11 [5] cgs |
| Temperature | 4,150±92 [5] K |
| Metallicity [Fe/H] | −0.01±0.05 [5] dex |
| Rotational velocity (v sin i) | 8.75 [7] km/s |
| Age | 1.15+0.67 −0.43 [5] Gyr |
| Other designations | |
| 60 Cnc, NSV 4308, BD+12°1941, GC 12339, HD 76351, HIP 43851, HR 3550, SAO 98235 [4] | |
| Database references | |
| SIMBAD | data |
60 Cancri is a star in the zodiac constellation Cancer, located about 850 light-years away from the Sun. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.44. [2] 60 Cancri is situated near the ecliptic, so it is subject to the occasional occultation by the Moon. [8] It is moving away from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +25 km/s. [1]
This is an aging giant star with a stellar classification of K5 III, [3] indicating it has exhausted the hydrogen at its core and evolved off the main sequence. It is a suspected variable star of unknown type. [9] The interferometry-measured angular diameter of the primary component, after correcting for limb darkening, is 1.94±0.02 mas , [10] which, at its estimated distance, equates to a physical radius of about 54 times the radius of the Sun. [11] It is around 1.15 billion years old with 1.4 times the mass of the Sun. [5] The star is radiating just over a thousand times the Sun's luminosity [6] from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,150 K. [5]
