Mercury<\/a> is the smallest of our planets, with a mass of just 0.330\u00d710^24 kg, so you would need 21.2 million Mercurys to fill the Sun.<\/p>\nDwarf planet Pluto has just 1% of the mass of Earth, so more than 200 million Plutos are equal to the Sun\u2019s mass.<\/p>\n
Our Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun and 27 million times less massive. You would need 64.3 million Moons to equal the Sun.<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n
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