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a young fowl for eating; weighs 5 to 7 lb at 6 months of age.


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This so-called hot Jupiter, known as Upsilon Andromedae b, orbits its parent star at only about a tenth of the distance that Mercury resides from the sun.
To date, the planets that have been found around other stars fall into two broad categories, Boss said: hot Jupiters and cold Jupiters.
In the mid-August Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Retter and his colleagues argue that the consumption of even a single hot Jupiter could account for the multistage outburst.
 
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