The Sun weighs about 332,000 times as much as the Earth.
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Pluto was demoted to dwarf planet status in 2006 after the discovery of Eris, a trans-Neptunian object with a greater mass.
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Ceres is the largest asteroid in the solar system. For fifty years, it was considered to be the eighth planet. Today, it is one of the five known dwarf planets in the Solar System, along with Pluto, Eris, Makemake, and Haumea.
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250 million years ago, most of the Earth's land mass was on one giant continent - Pangaea. Scientists believe that this giant land mass created extreme weather conditions.
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Extreme global warming or an asteroid impact could lead to huge, immensely powerful hurricanes called hypercanes with winds speeds of 500 mph.
I never realized that the Sun was so morbidly obese. No wonder the Earth is getting hotter. If the Sun doesn't start losing weight, exercising more and eating healthier we are all doomed.
You know, if the sun were a planet, the internal pressure and temperature of the object would reach the threshold needed to start thermonuclear reactions.
I'm not sure if the hypercane fact gives the right impression. Global warming must be so extreme that the water temperature reaches 50°C. It's so unlikely the German wikipedia doesn't even mention it. More likely would be, after impact events, volcanic eruptions.
The sun is not a planet, it is a star. A planet is an object that orbits around a star.