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Planets with Four Parents? Spitzer Finds Evidence for Strange Stellar Family

HD 98800 is a quadruple star system where two tight pairs of stars orbit each other at slightly further than the average distance of Pluto. One of the pairs have two belts of dust around it at approximate distances of 1.5-2 AU and 5.9 AU.
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