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How will you weight the sun, i.e. estima...

How will you weight the sun, i.e. estimate its mass ? You will need to know the period of one of its planets and the radius of the planetary orbit. The mean orbit radius of the earth around the sun is `1.5 xx 10^(8)km`, then the mass of the sun would be calculated as

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