Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. Douglas Adams
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To say that our solar system is odd would be a great understatement. It has nine planets and one asteroid belt, all in the same plane as the Sun, and an asteroid belt that is absent of any asteroids. It is also one of only five solar systems in our galaxy that have a circular orbit. A circular orbit means the planets never stray too far from the Sun and stay relatively close to each other as well. This is not the case for our solar system.

Source: The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy

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