Thursday, January 04, 2007

Not-quite-daily quote

Our solar system consists of one star and some debris.

Mass distribution in our solar system:

  • Sun: 99.865 %
  • Planets: 0.134% (Jupiter 0.1%)
  • Moons: 0.00004%
  • Cometes: 0.00003%
  • Asteroids: 0.0000003%

-- Carl Sagan