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Spitzer Sees the Aftermath of a Planetary Collision
Universe Today | Jan. 10, 2005 | Dolores Beasley and Gay Yee Hill
Posted on 01/13/2005 11:50:18 PM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1320521/posts
NASA's Spitzer Finds Violent Galaxies Smothered In 'Crushed Glass'
NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory via ScienceDaily.com | February 17, 2006 | NA
Posted on 02/20/2006 2:50:42 AM EST by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1582020/posts
The next post will have a relevant search link -- jumbo extrasolar planets have been spotted (indirectly) in orbit so close to the parent star that they must have been captured, or spiralled slowly inward due to retrograde orbits, or are newly born as chunks of the stars.