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HD 114762 b (nicknamed Latham’s Planet) is a candidate extrasolar planet approximately 132 light-years (40.6 pc) away in the constellation of Coma Berenices. It is likely either a massive gaseous planet or brown dwarf. This optically undetected companion to the late F-type star HD 114762 was discovered in 1989 by David Latham of the Harvard-Simthsonian Center for Astrophysics Tsevi Mazeh of Tel Aviv University and others.