  We report the discovery of one or more planet-mass companions to the K0-giant
HD 102272 with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. In the absence of any correlation of
the observed periodicities with the standard indicators of stellar activity,
the observed radial velocity variations are most plausibly explained in terms
of a Keplerian motion of at least one planet-mass body around the star. With
the estimated stellar mass of 1.9M$_\odot$, the minimum mass of the confirmed
planet is 5.9M$_J$. The planet's orbit is characterized by a small but nonzero
eccentricity of $e$=0.05 and the semi-major axis of 0.61 AU, which makes it the
most compact one discovered so far around GK-giants. This detection adds to the
existing evidence that, as predicted by theory, the minimum size of planetary
orbits around intermediate-mass giants is affected by both planet formation
processes and stellar evolution. The currently available evidence for another
planet around HD 102272 is insufficient to obtain an unambiguous two-orbit
solution.
