  Recent studies of the 55 Cancri system suggest the existence of three planets
with periods of ~15 days, ~45 days, and ~5500 days (Marcy et al. 2002). The
inner two planets are near the 3:1 mean motion commensurability and it is
likely that these two planets became trapped in the resonance while farther
from the star and migrated together. As the innermost planet begins to
dissipate energy through tides the planets break out of the resonance. The
final state of the system gives important information about its past history,
such as the migration timescale that led to capture.
