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HD 12846 is a G2V star located 75.6 light years away, in the constellation of Aries. Alternative names for the star are Hip 9829, SAO 75144 and BD+23 285. As of December 2020, no exoplanets have been discovered around this Sun-like star. HD 12846 is considered by Turnbull and Tarter (2011) as one of the 25 habitable stars within 25 parsecs, as part of the Catalog of Nearby Habitable Systems.

The star has a metallicity of -0.23 Fe/H, and an age of 3.1 billion years. It is likely that HD 12846 does not have any giant planet within 2 AU, which could potentially allow the existence of a stable habitable zone in the stellar system. With an apparent magnitude of 6.89, the star is visible to the naked eye as a faint star.