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 most probable one is the next inner planet, Aphrodite," replied Morey.
From Islands of Space by Campbell, John Wood
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
