stackyFACTSYour sense of self-importance is mathematically irrelevant. Our local star accounts for over ninety-nine percent of all the mass in the entire solar neighborhood, meaning everything else—every moon, asteroid, and speck of cosmic dust—is just a statistical rounding error in the sun's gravitational kingdom.
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Solar mass is so unfathomably huge that the Sun accounts for exactly ninety-nine point eight percent of all the matter in our entire solar system, effectively…
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