When it comes to adoption, the sun may have it all over celeb parent Angelina Jolie. Most of the hundreds of billions of small fry in the outermost reaches of the solar system — comets in a vast reservoir called the Oort cloud — might have been born around other stars and only later moved to the sun, new computer simulations suggest.
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