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What’s the most

massive planet?

At 4,184,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 lb
(1,898,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg), Jupiter
has the biggest planetary mass. If Earth’s mass

is represented by one orange, Jupiter is
represented by eight crates of oranges.

URANUS
MERCURY VENUS 15 × Earth
0.05 × Earth 0.8 × Earth

MARS
0.1 × Earth EARTH
1 orange
Although mass and weight are not the same, Earth’s
the masses of the solar system planets could be mass is near
compared through some weighing experiments, as halfway in the
long as they were all weighed at the same location. planetary scale.

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