inner planet
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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
Could the same greenhouse effect that would torch the inner planet thaw the outer one and make it livable?
From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2011
The inner planet revolved about it with one side glowing low red heat and the other side piled high with frozen atmosphere.
From Talents, Incorporated by Leinster, Murray
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.