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You wake up in the morning, freshen up, have your breakfast and get to work. But have you ever wondered about the place you live in? Have you ever thought, if by any chance, an asteroid strikes the planet where we are living and damages it; what would happen to us? Can we live somewhere else in the solar system? Is there any other planet sustaining life in this universe? Our home planet, popularly known as Earth, is the only yet known planet to sustain life. This spherical blue ball of 71% water and 29% land is 1495978 kilometers away from the Sun. Huge distance, isn't it? But this is the appropriate distance to sustain life. The reason why Earth is, what it is right now lies in history. A history that goes back billions of years.  The Earth cc: space.com About 4.5 billion years ago, gas, ice, and dust come together to form a volume of the molecular cloud. Asteroids collided with it. Particles accumulated together due to gravity, and they take the shape of a sphere. The sphere...

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