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Last Post 3/25/2020 2:19 PM by  Terry Kucera
How heavy is the sun?
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3/25/2020 10:47 AM
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    How heavy is the sun?

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    3/25/2020 2:19 PM
    Hi,
    The Sun has a mass of 1.989 x 10^30 kilograms
    That means 1.98 times a 1 with 30 zeros after it (a trillion trillion million).
    That is a lot! That is 99.8% of the total mass of the Solar System and 333,000 times more massive than Earth.
    Terry
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