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Proper Names	Dimidium; originally provisionally named ‘Bellerophon’
Designation	51 Pegasi b
Classification	Gas Giant
Orbital Period	4.23 days
Mean Distance from Helvetios	7 million km 0.05 AU
Mass	0.46 x Jupiter
Diameter	> 1.6 x Jupiter
Temperature	1,260 K (990°C)
Parent star	Helvetios (51 Pegasi), yellow subgiant in Pegasus
Other planets in this system	None
Notes	Notable as the first extrasolar planet to be discovered in orbit of a typical star (second only to a planetary system found around the pulsar now known as Lich), Dimidium takes its name (meaning 'half') from its mass, which is a little under half that of Jupiter.

The designation given to the large world thought to orbit Helvetios or 51 Pegasi, a yellow star fifty light years away from Earth's solar system.

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