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Is Saturn half the size of the sun?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

No, it is not.

Saturn is the second largest of the planets, but nowhere near the diameter or mass of the sun.

In fact, the mass of all the planets together is less than 1/500th of the sun's mass.

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