UNIVERSE
SOLAR SYSTEM FORMATION
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99%
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1%
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50%
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75%
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Detailed explanation-1: -As the star for nine planets, a multitude of asteroids, comets and other celestial objects, the Sun contains more than 99 percent of the entire mass in the solar system. For more information, visit NASA’s Sun Earth Connection site.
Detailed explanation-2: -Starting point: A cloud of interstellar gas and dust, the “solar nebula"; Most of it (98%) is hydrogen and helium, but it includes atoms and dust grains of heavier material, formed in previous generations of stars.
Detailed explanation-3: -By far most of the solar system’s mass is in the Sun itself: somewhere between 99.8 and 99.9 percent. The rest is split between the planets and their satellites, and the comets and asteroids and the dust and gas surrounding our star.