The specific numerical fact that essentially every high-school astronomy textbook published in the specific interval between approximately 1970 and the present has cited as the single most-substantial summary statistic about the mass distribution of the solar system is that the Sun contains 99.86 percent of all the mass in the entire solar system. The specific [...] The post The Sun accounts for 99.86 percent of all the mass in the entire solar system — meaning that if you took all eight planets, every one of their moons, every asteroid, and every comet, and combined them into a single object, that object would weigh less than one seven-hundredth of the Sun appeared first on Space Daily .
The Sun accounts for 99.86 percent of all the mass in the entire solar system — meaning that if you took all eight planets, every one of their moons, every asteroid, and every comet, and combined them into a single object, that object would weigh less than one seven-hundredth of the Sun
