Solved cryptogram
The sun holds well over ninety nine percent of all the mass in the entire solar system.
Astronomy Facts, sourced to NASA.
What it means
Every planet, moon, asteroid and comet together amounts to a rounding error beside it, and Jupiter is most of that remainder. It is worth holding on to when looking at a diagram of the solar system, because those diagrams necessarily draw the planets far too large. On a true scale the sun would be a beach ball and the Earth a peppercorn a hundred paces away.
The claim comes from NASA, and the page it comes from was read on 2026-08-27 to confirm it still says this.
This is not the kind of claim that goes out of date, which is why it was set as a puzzle rather than a fact with a shelf life.
Solve it yourself
This fact is a cryptogram here: 70 letters over 19 different ones, graded medium.
- SourceNASA
- CollectionAstronomy Facts
- Difficultymedium
- Length70 letters, 19 of them different
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