The mass of the Solar System excluding the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn can be determined by adding together all the calculated masses for its largest objects and using rough calculations for the masses of the Oort cloud estimated at roughly 3 Earth masses , the Kuiper Belt estimated at roughly 0 | Planets and some dwarf planets of the Solar System |
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Astronomers usually measure distances within the Solar System in AU | Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism |
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"The origin and evolution of the solar system" | 1 Earth mass and the asteroid belt estimated to be 0 |
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