current best known value for the mass of Jupiter can be expressed as :

which is about as massive as the Sun (is about ):

Jupiter is 318 times as massive as Earth:

Context and implications

Jupiter's mass is 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined--this is so massive that its barycenter with the Sun lies beyond the Sun's surface at 1.068 solar radii

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