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===Planetary systems=== Pyxis is home to three stars with confirmed planetary systems—all discovered by [[Doppler spectroscopy]]. A [[hot Jupiter]], [[HD 73256 b]], that orbits [[HD 73256]] every 2.55 days, was discovered using the [[CORALIE spectrograph]] in 2003. The host star is a yellow star of spectral type G9V that has 69% of our Sun's luminosity, 89% of its diameter and 105% of its mass. Around 119 light-years away, it shines with an apparent magnitude of 8.08 and is around a billion years old.<ref name="Udry2003">{{cite journal |title=The CORALIE survey for southern extra-solar planets X. A Hot Jupiter orbiting HD 73256 |last1=Udry |first1=S. |last2=Mayor |first2=M. |last3=Clausen |first3=J. V. |last4=Freyhammer |first4=L. M. |last5=Helt |first5=B. E. |last6=Lovis |first6=C. |last7=Naef |first7=D. |last8=Olsen |first8=E. H. |last9=Pepe |first9=F. |journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics |volume=407 |issue=2 |pages=679–84 |year=2003 |arxiv=astro-ph/0304248 |bibcode=2003A&A...407..679U |doi=10.1051/0004-6361:20030815|s2cid=118889984 }}</ref> [[HD 73267 b]] was discovered with the [[High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher]] (HARPS) in 2008. It orbits [[HD 73267]] every 1260 days, a 7 billion-year-old star of spectral type G5V that is around 89% as massive as the Sun.<ref name="Moutou2009">{{cite journal |title=The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets XVII. Six long-period giant planets around BD −17 0063, HD 20868, HD 73267, HD 131664, HD 145377, HD 153950 |url=http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2009/11/aa10941-08/aa10941-08.html |last1=Moutou |first1=C. |last2=Mayor |first2=M. |last3=Lo Curto |first3=G. |last4=Udry |first4=S. |last5=Bouchy |first5=F. |last6=Benz |first6=W. |last7=Lovis |first7=C. |last8=Naef |first8=D. |last9=Pepe |first9=F. |last10=Queloz |first10=D. |last11=Santos |first11=N. C. |journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics |volume=496 |issue=2 |pages=513–19 |date=2009 |arxiv=0810.4662 |bibcode=2009A&A...496..513M |doi=10.1051/0004-6361:200810941|s2cid=116707055 }}</ref> A [[red dwarf]] of spectral type M2.5V that has around 42% the Sun's mass, [[Gliese 317]] is orbited by two gas giant planets. Around 50 light-years distant from Earth, it is a good candidate for future searches for more terrestrial rocky planets.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Astrometry and radial velocities of the planet host M dwarf Gliese 317: new trigonometric distance, metallicity and upper limit to the mass of Gliese 317 b |last1=Anglada-Escude |first1=Guillem |last2=Boss |first2=Alan P. |last3=Weinberger |first3=Alycia J. |last4=Thompson |first4=Ian B. |last5=Butler |first5=R. Paul |last6=Vogt |first6=Steven S. |last7=Rivera |first7=Eugenio J. |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |date=2012 |volume=764 |issue=1 |pages=37A |bibcode=2012ApJ...746...37A |doi=10.1088/0004-637X/746/1/37 |arxiv=1111.2623|s2cid=118526264 }}</ref>
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