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Incredible Neptune surface facts - Orbital Today (orbitaltoday.com)
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This was a really well written article describing what we know about Neptune.

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[โ€“] freeman@lemmy.pub 2 points 1 year ago

To be fair jupiter is 99% of the mass in the solar system (that isnt the sun).

The sun is 99.8% of the mass of the entire system

Of the rest of the .15-.2% of the mass left, Jupiter is like 2.5x bigger than the rest of the stuff combined.

Jupiter is really big. So if the sun.