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Planet found with a year lasting just 31 hours
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Submitted: Mon Jun 04 2007
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An international team of astronomers has discovered an unusual planet that orbits its parent star in just 31 hours. It is also a very massive planet - about twice the mass of the solar system's biggest planet, Jupiter - and is one of the planets with the shortest known periods.