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LearningAboutThePlanets

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Facts About the Sun<br />

• The Sun’s diameter is 865,000 miles; that’s 109 times the diameter<br />

of the Earth.<br />

• Mass: 1.98892 x 1030 kg - That’s 333,000 times the mass of<br />

Earth.<br />

• Surface gravity of the Sun: 27.94 g - the gravity of the Sun at the<br />

surface is 28 times the gravity of the Earth.<br />

• Volume of the Sun: 1.412 x 1018 km3 - That means you could fit 1.3<br />

Million planets the size of the earth into the sun!<br />

• Density of the Sun: 1.622 x 105 kg/m3<br />

• Everything in the Solar System orbits around the Sun, including 8<br />

planets and their moons, many dwarf planets, asteroids, comets<br />

and dust.

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