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scarypanda: 1 year ago

Is the sun a planet

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pRetiree: 1 year ago

Nope. The Sun is the name of our closest star.

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crowtrobot: 1 year ago

no the sun is a star however if jupiter was about 12 times larger it could ignite and become a star itself

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DavidLingard: 1 year ago

thats cool never learned that in school lol pretty neat

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bluegenre: 1 year ago

yup, jupiter is under the classification of brown dwarfs. sort of half planet, half star.

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jaj403: 1 year ago

not excactly but youre right it could become a star but it would not be a brown dwarf it would cause a nebula and becom in this case

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Partypop: 1 year ago

No...no it's not.

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youronewish: 1 year ago

No, it's a star, but it's not the biggest star! Just the closest! :)

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sakura09: 1 year ago

no the sun is a star

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lionel549: 1 year ago

no its a star(~_~)

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King24: 1 year ago via iPhone

Nope but the sun is In the solar system:)

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ilive430STM: 1 year ago

The sun is the closes STAR to us

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rocketgirl1901: 1 year ago

No it's not a star. It's what they want you to think. But really it's a planet with aliens inside but the heat and all that hot jazz is there protection so they are safe inside but so hot outside that no one would attack them ^.^

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SallyluvJack: 1 year ago

Go GIR!!!!

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knucklebrain: 1 year ago via iPhone

Getty up ROCKET!!

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scarypanda: 1 year ago

Lol

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tf4e3: 1 year ago

Is this a joke?

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madi101: 1 year ago

No the sun is the biggest star and the closest star

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tf4e3: 1 year ago

It only appears larger due to its proximity. Other, farther away stars have a greater mass.

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jaj403: 1 year ago

its tiny compared to other stars there are other stars 800,000 times our suns mass

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spotb4: 1 year ago via iPhone

It best being A star

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soccergirl21: 1 year ago

Nope its a star. Hehe

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Lior: 1 year ago via iPhone

The Sun is a spectral type G2, intermediate population I star.

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lanayamj: 1 year ago via iPhone

No it's a star.

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oRainbowDasho: 1 year ago

It's a star.

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MaQz_QuaLiTy: 1 year ago

Its a ticking time bomb

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sNxNinja: 1 year ago

actually, yes, the sun is, in fact, a planet. it's inhabited by genius isolationists that created a large, flaming force field around the planet so no one could get to them. scientists just made up the whole thing about it being a star.

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jaj403: 1 year ago

its a main sequence star with 5 billion years left in its life

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14thelegend: 1 year ago

Nope, It's a star

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shilu: 1 year ago

No. Sun is a star.

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mmomar: 1 year ago

it is a star there are only 8 planets.

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cookthehook: 1 year ago

Its a star, there are way more than 8 planets, other solar systems have planets too

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KinadyKersey: 1 year ago | Last edited at 9:42AM on 3/24/2012

No, A Sun Is a Star, Closest Star
8 Planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto Is No Longer a Planet because It's so very Small .

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