Given the distance from Earth to the Sun is an astronomical unit (149,597,870,700 m) and takes one year to complete a revolution around it (365.2425 days), what is the mass of the Sun? (The mass of the Earth is not needed for this problem) (6.674×10−11 m3⋅kg−1⋅s−2).

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Given the distance from Earth to the Sun is an astronomical unit (149,597,870,700 m) and takes one year to complete a revolution around it (365.2425 days), what is the mass of the Sun? (The mass of the Earth is not needed for this problem) (6.674×10−11 m3⋅kg−1⋅s−2).

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