Comment on NASA study reveals Venus crust surpriseparentComments−saalweachter1yCrazy factoid one: The Earth masses more than everything else between the Sun and Jupiter combined.Crazy factoid two: Venus is 80% of the Earth's mass.−sph1yIt also blows my mind that the Sun accounts for 99.86% of the entire Solar System’s mass.−butlike1yMakes sense. You have a lot of gaseous outer planets, then a star who's compression needs to be so great that fusion can happen in it. That compression is going to drive up the density of the star.−saalweachter1y"If Jupiter were a little bit bigger, we'd have a binary star system!"<The Sun, massing 1000x what Jupiter does.>
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Crazy factoid one: The Earth masses more than everything else between the Sun and Jupiter combined.
Crazy factoid two: Venus is 80% of the Earth's mass.
It also blows my mind that the Sun accounts for 99.86% of the entire Solar System’s mass.
Makes sense. You have a lot of gaseous outer planets, then a star who's compression needs to be so great that fusion can happen in it. That compression is going to drive up the density of the star.
"If Jupiter were a little bit bigger, we'd have a binary star system!"
<The Sun, massing 1000x what Jupiter does.>