inner planet

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They first refined measurements of a previously known inner planet, GJ 251 b, which completes an orbit every 14 days.

From Science Daily

The orbits of the three known planets showed a 3/2 resonance between each neighboring pair: For every three times the inner planet orbits, the outer neighbor orbits twice.

From Science Magazine

The exoplanets are huge: the inner planet is 14 times as massive as Jupiter and the outer one is 6 times as massive.

From Nature

But get around these and the view, at least, might be pleasing to the eye: wispy clouds, a giant red sun, and an inner planet that rises like Venus.

From The Guardian

How a small inner planet stays on that path as a bigger planet lurches on an elliptical orbit around the same star is a mystery.

From Scientific American