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Compared with the vast worlds of galaxies and stars, our solar system is just an arrangement of small pebbles in space, and in comparison to even a very average star like our sun the planets of the solar system are almost nothing: 99 percent of the mass of the solar system is concentrated in the sun. Most of the rest is made up of the planet Jupiter, and some of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Earth and her neighbors Mercury, Venus, and Mars—not to mention moons and asteroids—are mere dust specks.
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Fischer, D., Duerbeck, H. (1996). Our Galactic Home—The Solar System. In: Hubble. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2390-0_8
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