Question

"The Sun makes up 89% of the mass of the solar system". State whether the given statement is correct or not, if not then what is the correct answer?

Answer 1

Hint: The mass of the sun is taken as one solar mass or to be more precise it is 1.989 * 10 to the power of 30. While 1.0014 solar masses is the entire mass of our solar system.

Complete answer: The most massive component of our solar system is the sun. The sun constitutes around 99.86 percent of the entire mass of the solar system. Therefore the statement is false. The sun is situated in the center of the solar system and is nearly a perfect sphere in shape. The sun has a diameter which is 109 times that of the Earth while it has a mass which is about 3,30,000 times that of the Earth.
The most abundant element on the sun is hydrogen around 73.46 percent and it is followed by helium which constitutes 24.85 percent. Other elements presenting the sun include - oxygen, carbon, iron, neon, etc. In the core of the sun continuous nuclear fusion is taking place. Currently in the sun's core 600 million tons of hydrogen fuses with helium every second which results in the conversion of 4 million tons of matter into energy every second.

Note: A system in which objects are gravitationally bound to the sun and orbit it, directly or indirectly, is called the solar system. In our solar system eight planets orbit the sun directly whereas many smaller objects like dwarf planets also orbit the sun.