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Estimate the mass of the sun, assuming the orbit of Earth around the sun to be a circle. The distance between the sun and the Earth is `1.49 xx 10^(11) m`, and `G = 6.67 xx 10^(-11) Nm^(2) kg^(-2)`.

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