To provide defense against these sporadic attacks, the early settlers erected a series of forts in the area. Wood's Fort guarded the Forks-of-the-River just downstream from Newport, and McCoy's Fort and Whitson's Fort defended the area to the south.
The Solar System formed 4.6 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of a giant interstellar molecular cloud. The vast majority of the system's mass is in the Sun, with most of the remaining mass contained in Jupiter.
HIP 11952 is now known to have two Jupiter-sized planets. The system is thought to be some 12.8 billion years old. Astronomers hope to use this system to begin to understand how and when the first planets formed in our universe. StÃ©phane Udry: Evidence of billions of rocky, habitable planets in our galaxy.