inner planet
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For every five orbits completed by the inner planet, the outer planet finishes almost exactly three.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 27, 2026
They first refined measurements of a previously known inner planet, GJ 251 b, which completes an orbit every 14 days.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2025
The orbits of the three known planets showed a 3/2 resonance between each neighboring pair: For every three times the inner planet orbits, the outer neighbor orbits twice.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 29, 2023
The exoplanets are huge: the inner planet is 14 times as massive as Jupiter and the outer one is 6 times as massive.
From Nature ● Jul. 21, 2020
As these catastrophes occur, the sun will blaze with renewed energy; and it may be that some inner planet had suffered this fate.
From The Time Machine by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
