Earlier this year (June 22), astronomers had announced the discovery of a new 4th planet ("e") for the star Gliese 876, which is a red dwarf in Aquarius, at a distance of 15.2ly. The planet is an Uranus sized world that orbits its parent star in 124 days, near circular orbit. Along with the other two giant planets in the system, it undergoes an orbital resonance of 4:2:1 and every 124 days the planets line up in an almost triple conjunction.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.4244
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceno...g-in-thre.html
This also happens to be the star that is part of my second assignment
