title: 5B
text: # 5B
  
  5B or 5-B may refer to:
  
  ## Entertainment
  
  * Studio 5-B, a 1989 short-lived drama series about a Canadian TV news channel
  * 5B, the production code for the 1978 Doctor Who serial The Pirate Planet
  * 5B (film), a 2018 documentary about the AIDS crisis by Dan Krauss and Paul Haggis
  
  ## Numbers and computing
  
  * 5B is hexadecimal for 91 (number)
  * 5B is the ASCII code for "["
     * Thus, %5B is URL encoding for "["
  
  ## Space and space exploration
  
  * Corot-Exo-5b, an extrasolar planet
  * WASP-5b, an extrasolar planet
  * Little Joe 5B, an unmanned Launch Escape System test of the Mercury spacecraft
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Boron $(_5B),$ a chemical element
  