http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/brown-dwarf-planet-100408.html


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And the new discovery of an apparent planet orbiting one of these mini stars
seems to blur the line even more between a planet and a brown dwarf.

In this case, the "star" [a brown dwarf] weighs about 20 times the mass of
Jupiter, but its planet weighs not too much less - about 5 to 10 times
Jupiter's mass. With the objects in such similar weight categories, some
astronomers are questioning whether those labels even apply.


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Steven Vincent Johnson
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