Earth, neighbors weren’t the first rocky planets in the solar system
A wandering Jupiter helped push an early generation into the sun, new study claims
![Illustration of Kepler 11](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/cc_rocky-inner-planet_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
FIRST DRAFT The solar system may have once hosted several large rocky planets close to the sun, like Kepler 11 (illustrated) does, before Jupiter swept them away.
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