 Mass estimates of the two objects are uncertain, but they are probably each higher than the brown-dwarf/planet dividing line of 13 Jupiter masses.Oph1622B is located 1.94 arcseconds from Oph1622A, at a position angle of 182°.The discovery of the pair was announced in a 2006 Science article by Ray Jayawardhana and Valentin D. Ivanov
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