English Explanatory Dictionary

Dimidium

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. 51 Pegasi b, a large hot Jupiter exoplanet, approximately 50 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus.

Word forms

Dimidium

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dīmidium (“half”), referring to the planet's mass of approximately half the mass of Jupiter.

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