His early cartoons, used to illustrate his books of acerbic whimsy, were James Thurberesque caricatures of humanity elongated figures, often grotesque, usually absurd and ungainly looking.

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They gravitationally interact, and we get these sort of eccentric, elongated orbits and also these sort of closed-in, or what are often called hot Jupiters, which, interestingly, are exacting the sort of thing we see in many cases amongst the exoplanets that have been discovered.

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