Sun No Longer Largest Object in Solar System

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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[QUOTE=OtakuLoki]
Well, since that’s what most nebulae are: dust clouds bigger than the Sun, I mean, it just never twigged my radar. Many of the opaque nebulae are light years across.
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Right, but they’re not in our solar system.

It wasn’t so much the explosion that freaked me out, but an explosion that created a cloud so mammoth as to be larger than the system’s primary. I mean, as I understand it, we started off with an object significantly smaller than the moon, and it erupted so violently as to create a debris field significantly larger than the sun.

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Fair enough.

I wonder how large the gas cloud created by the explosion on Apollo XIII was.

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[QUOTE=Siam Sam]
Rats! I was hoping that it WAS named after John Holmes and maybe because it had such a big appendage. “Comet Johnny Wadd” has a nice ring to it.
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One of those special rings I see advertised in magazines, right?