• Question: what is the mass , size and circumference of the sun?

    Asked by Green632 to Angus, Catherine, Jenni, Melissa, Waqar on 19 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Melissa Ladyman

      Melissa Ladyman answered on 19 Jun 2016:


      Circumference: 2,713,406 miles
      Mass: 1.989 × 10^30 kg
      That’s a scientific way of saying: 1,989,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg !!

      The diameter of the sun is 109 x that of Earth and the mass is 330,000 x that of the Earth! The sun’s mass makes up 99.86% of the mass of the entire solar system!

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