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Actually the sun is about 332,000 times more massive than Earth.

Chaisson and McMillan's "Astronomy Today", Volume II, Sixth Edition, Chapter 16 explains the mass as: "1.99X1030 kg with an Equatorial radius of 696,000km"

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