Image credit: NASA/ESA-SOHOWhen you sum up the mass of everything in the solar system: the sun, all the planets, dwarf planets, moons, asteroids, comets, Kuiper belt objects, Oort cloud objects, and dust… the sun accounts for 99.86% of it.
That leaves only 0.14% left for everything else – and MOST of that is Jupiter!
The sun is 333,000 x Earth’s mass
or: 1047.5 Jupiter’s
or: 1.981 x1030 kg
This post is the first in a series I’m creating from a lecture I gave to the Warren Astronomical Society.
