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[[Image:HD 98800.jpg|thumb|right|Artist's conception of HD 98800 would look like.]]A circumbinary planet is a planet that orbits two stars instead of one because the stars are so close together that they can only form outside of the orbits of both stars.
[[Image:HD 98800.jpg|thumb|right|Artist's conception of HD 98800 would look like.]]A circumbinary planet is a planet that orbits two stars instead of one because the stars are so close together that they can only form outside of the orbits of both stars.
==External Links==
*[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002aprm.conf...53M The Orbital Evolution of a Circumbinary Planet]
*[http://www.aanda.org/index.php?option=article&access=standard&Itemid=129&url=/articles/aa/pdf/2008/20/aa09453-08.pdf On the formation and migration of giant planets in circumbinary discs]
*[http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=15169610 On the evolution of giant protoplanets forming in circumbinary discs]
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Artist's conception of HD 98800 would look like.

A circumbinary planet is a planet that orbits two stars instead of one because the stars are so close together that they can only form outside of the orbits of both stars.

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