By Paul Seaburn via MysteriousUniverse Imagine the planets in our solar system as cookies. Imagine the Sun as a monstrous red-hot cookie monster. Imagine one giant blob of cookie dough flying around and sucking up all of the chocolate chips, nuts and sprinkles in its path. What would a flaming cookie monster do when it sees such a monstrous cookie treat? Num-num-num! According to new research, that's what happened in the early days of our solar system and may explain why the orbit of Mercury is completely void of any cosmic debris besides the little planet. Num-num-num! Without the homage to Sesame Street, that's what Dr. Rebecca Martin, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, describes in her new study, a pre-print version of which was published by the Astrophysical Journal. Martin believes that complete lack of debris around the Sun from its surface to the orbit of Mercury and beyond may be explained by the one-time