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That tiny region of space lying between the Sun and the inner Main Belt of asteroids is the most familiar to us. No surprise in that of course; after all, this is where our own blue Earth resides. Our home is, to use a phrase made popular by a science fiction comedy of late last century, the “Third Rock from the Sun”. So before venturing any further into the Universe, it will be well to take a look around this cosmic backyard of ours and the other three “Rocks” that share it with us.
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Seargent, D.A.J. (2013). Four Rocks Near the Sun. In: Weird Worlds. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7064-9_1
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