HIP 13044

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HIP 13044 is a former extragalactic red horizontal-branch star about 2,380 light years away in the constellation Fornax, belonging to the Helmi stream. In 2010, a 1.25 Jupiter mass planet was announced to orbit the star. However, subsequent analysis of the data revealed problems with the detection. After applying an erroneous barycentric correction, the planet was found to not exist and thus disproven.

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