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Six-planet system discovered that moves in perfect mathematical harmony (www.earth.com)
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[โ€“] EarMaster 6 points 4 days ago

These planets all have incredibly short "years". The outermost only takes 55 earth days to complete one orbit. I suspect that this means they are also all very close to their star. That would explain why there is such harmony as the star is easily the only and/or largest gravitational influence on them.