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0 pointswater-data-dude10mo ago0 comments

I wanted to get a sense of what that MEANS relative to the rest of the gas giants. Apparently it’d be roughly the size of Uranus or Neptune.

I guess I’d always put all the gas giants in the same “very, unimaginably big” bucket. I knew Jupiter was the biggest, then Saturn, but I didn’t realize just HOW big they were compared to the rest. At the risk of stating the very, very obvious, Jupiter is huge!!!

Masses of gas giants are: Jupiter, 317.8 earth mass; Saturn, 95.2 earth mass; Neptune, 17.1 earth mass; Uranus, 14.5 earth mass

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jvm___10mo ago

The Sun is 99.86% of the mass in our solar system. Jupiter is 0.1% and everything else fits in that last 0.04%

mncharity10mo ago

So Earth-mass orders-of-magnitude go something like: [big] 3 Juno, [balls] Ceres, Io, Moon, Mars, Earth, [gas] Uranus-Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter and super-Jupiters, [fusion] brown dwarfs, stars... .

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