HD 85512 b (HF)

HD 85512 b, recently named Mandingo, after the people who colonized it, is the only planet in it's system, orbiting HD 85512, a K5V orange star some 36 lightyears from Earth in the constellation of Vela. The planet laies at the inner edge of the Habititable Zone, just inside enough to harbor large quantities of liquid water. It's discovery was announced August 17, 2011, along with two other exoplanets, all three of which considered possible Earth-like planets. The planet was discovered by scientists at University of Geneva, Switzerland, led by Swiss astronomer Stéphane Udry of the Guaranteed Time Observations (GTO) program of High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS). The planet was never given an official name, and thus it was named "Mandingo" by the USC in 2019.

HD 85512 b has an near perfect orbit around it's parent star, leaving its habitable zone for only half of it's year, but it is expected to be tidally locked to its star. This would mean that one side of it's surface would always face the sun, but thankfully, the planet has more than 50% cloud coverage, meaning the the radiation from the sun doesn't effect the surface of HD 85512 b. The surface temperture of HD 85512 b is estimated to be stuck at 75 °F, giving the planet little seasonial variation. Because of the large water content, high tempertures, and constant rainfall in most of parts of the planet, HD 85512 has been classified as a storm world.