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PROTOPLANET from the Greek protos, 'first, principal, superior'; very small planet that is in the process of formation. Normally they are part of a protoplanetary disk that orbits around a young star and that is providing material for the consolidation and conversion of the protoplanet into a definitive planet.

  



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