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		marcosdumay on Sept 21, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “The moon blew up without warning and for no appar... > Why I think so: the planets have formed out of space debris, they didn't all fall into the star. Nearly all of them did, there is way more mass on the Sun than orbiting it.

mikeash on Sept 21, 2017 [–]

Just to put a number on "way more": the Sun contains 99.86% of all known mass in the solar system.

Of the 0.14% of the solar system that isn't the Sun, Jupiter accounts for roughly two thirds of it.

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