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Does the Sun have the most mass in our solar system?
The sun is by far the largest object in our solar system, containing 99.8% of the solar system’s mass.
What has the most mass in the solar system?
The sun
The sun may be the most massive object in the solar system — it contains 99.8 percent of the mass of the entire system — but on a stellar scale, it’s really quite average. About half of all known stars are more massive; about half have less mass.
Is the Sun a solar mass?
1.989 × 10^30 kg
Sun/Mass
Does the Sun have a high mass?
The classic low-mass star is the Sun. Low-mass stars have large convection zones when compared to intermediate- and high-mass stars. The star then becomes a Red Giant Star .
What is the mass of our solar system?
1.0014 Solar masses
Solar System
| The Sun and planets (distances not to scale) | |
| Age | 4.568 billion years |
| Location | Local Interstellar Cloud, Local Bubble, Orion–Cygnus Arm, Milky Way |
| System mass | 1.0014 Solar masses |
| Planetary system |
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What makes up most of the solar system?
By far most of the solar system’s mass is in the Sun itself: somewhere between 99.8 and 99.9 percent. The rest is split between the planets and their satellites, and the comets and asteroids and the dust and gas surrounding our star.
Which planet has greatest mass?
The largest planet in our solar system by far is Jupiter, which beats out all the other planets in both mass and volume. Jupiter’s mass is more than 300 times that of Earth, and its diameter, at 140,000 km, is about 11 times Earth’s diameter.
How is the mass of the sun determined?
Knowing the mass and radius of the Earth and the distance of the Earth from the sun, we can calculate the mass of the sun (right), again by using the law of universal gravitation. By astronomically determining the distance to the sun, we can calculate the earth’s speed around the sun and hence the sun’s mass.