Posted AT 7:24 PM EST on 07/08/08
We are special. Take it from a University of Guelph astrophysicist
If conditions had been slightly different when our solar system was formed, the Earth might have been engulfed by the sun or flung into deep space.
A new, large-scale computer simulation that traces how planetary systems are born shows just how special we are, says University of Guelph astrophysicist Edward Thommes, the lead author of a paper published in today's edition of the journal Science.
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