Quoting directly from Our Place in Space: Other handy

Last updated: 7/30/2022

Quoting directly from Our Place in Space: Other handy numbers for the solar system: • Jupiter is about 300 times the mass of the Earth • The Sun is 1000 times the mass of Jupiter • The radius of Jupiter is about 11 times the radius of Earth, but 1/10th the radius of the Sun. In the last two decades, thousands of exoplanets have been discovered (planets that orbit other stars). Although a lot of speculation is written about many of these planets, because they are so difficult to observe, typically only a very few characteristics can be learned about these distant worlds. Direct measurements of the masses and radii are possible, but not much else! Consider the planet SWEEPS-11 b which has been measured to have a mass of 9.7 x the mass of Jupiter and a radius of 1.13 x the radius of Jupiter. How many Earth masses is equivalent to the mass of planet SWEEPS-11 b? Earth masses