Combined together, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, and every asteroid account for only 0.14% of the Solar System's total mass.
Our star is so enormous that roughly 1.3 million Earths could fit inside it. Most of the remaining 0.14% of planetary mass is held by gas giant Jupiter.
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Quick Guess: What percentage of the Solar System's mass belongs solely to the Sun?
Verified Answer: 99%
Quiz Question: Roughly what percentage of our Solar System's mass belongs to the Sun?
Correct Answer: 99.86%
All planets, moons, and asteroids combined make up just 0.14% of the Solar System's mass.
Venus spins so slowly on its axis that a single Venusian day lasts longer than its entire orbit around the Sun.
A magnetar's magnetic field is so extreme that even 1,000 kilometers away, spherical electron clouds around atoms are deformed into needle-thin cylinders.
Because Titan has thicker nitrogen air and just 14% of Earth's gravity, giant liquid methane raindrops drift gently downward about 6 times slower than Earth rain.
The bootprints left by Apollo astronauts on the Moon in 1969 remain virtually untouched to this day.