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The end is shy

Time and tide may send our planet up in a puff of smoke.

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  1. Rybicki,K. R. & Denis, C. On the final destiny of the Earth and the solar system. Icarus 151, 130-137 (2001).

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Ball, P. The end is shy. Nature (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/news010510-7

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