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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.

• sph 1y ago
  It also blows my mind that the Sun accounts for 99.86% of the entire Solar System’s mass.
  • butlike 1y ago
    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.
  • saalweachter 1y ago
    "If Jupiter were a little bit bigger, we'd have a binary star system!" <The Sun, massing 1000x what Jupiter does.>