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The Sun contains 99.86% of all the mass in the solar system
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The total mass of the solar system is dominated entirely by the Sun: it contains 99.86% of all mass, leaving just 0.14% for everything else — all 8 planets, all their moons, the asteroid belt, the Kuiper belt, all comets, and all interplanetary dust. Jupiter, the largest planet, accounts for 71% of the remaining non-Sun mass. Earth is an almost negligible rounding error in the solar system's accounting.
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If you removed the Sun and replaced it with one made of styrofoam the same size, the Earth and all the planets would drift away — 99.86% of the gravitational pull holding the solar system together would be gone.
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“The Sun is 99.86% of all the mass in the solar system. Jupiter is most of the rest. Earth is a footnote.”
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