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« on: August 20, 2006, 12:19:21 AM »

Astronomers have turned up plenty of extrasolar planets, but a newly discovered binary pair of planets is quite the find. The system consists of a 7-Jupiter mass planet and a 14-Jupiter mass planet… but no star. These planets - or “planemos” - just orbit each other. Their discovery challenges the current theory that planets are thought to form out of the disks of gas and dust that surround newborn stars.

http://www.universetoday.com/2006/08/04/twin-planemos-discovered/
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