It also orbits very close to its parent star and takes 82/3 days to complete an orbit.

Based on theoretical modeling in the 2006 discovery paper, this is likely to be a rocky planet, not a gas giant.

[1] However, other work has found that if it had formed as a gas giant, it would have stayed that way,[3] and it is now understood that planets this massive are rarely rocky.

[4] If HD 69830 b is a terrestrial planet, models predict that tidal heating would produce a heat flux at the surface of about 55 W/m2.

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