Distant planets locked in cosmic dance
Thursday, June 21, 2012 - 20:00
in Astronomy & Space
SEATTLE, June 21 (UPI) -- U.S. astronomers say a bigger version of Earth is locked in an orbital tug-of-war with a much larger Neptune-sized planet around a distant star.
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