Definitions for solar mass
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1. solar massnoun

   a unit, equal to the mass of the sun, used to express the mass of other stars etc

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1. Solar mass

   The solar mass is a standard unit of mass in astronomy that is used to indicate the masses of other stars, as well as clusters, nebulae and galaxies. It is equal to the mass of the Sun, about two nonillion kilograms: The above mass is about 332,946 times the mass of the Earth or 1,048 times the mass of Jupiter. Because the Earth follows an elliptical orbit around the Sun, its solar mass can be computed from the equation for the orbital period of a small body orbiting a central mass. Based upon the length of the year, the distance from the Earth to the Sun, and the gravitational constant, the mass of the Sun is given by: The value of the gravitational constant was derived from measurements that were made by Henry Cavendish in 1798 from his using a torsion balance. The value he obtained differed only by about 1% from the modern value. The diurnal parallax of the Sun was accurately measured during the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769, yielding a value of 9″. If we know the value of the diurnal parallax, we can determine the distance to the Sun from the geometry of the Earth. The first person to estimate the mass of the Sun was Isaac Newton. In his work Principia, he estimated that the ratio of the mass of the Earth to the Sun was about 1/28,700. Then later he determined that his value was based upon a faulty value for the solar parallax, which he had used to estimate the distance to the Sun. So, he revised his result to obtain a ratio of 1/169,282 in the third edition of the Principia. The current estimated value for the solar parallax is smaller still, giving us a mass ratio of 1/332,946.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of solar mass in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of solar mass in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of solar mass in a Sentence

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   So, either black holes can grow faster than the speed limit, but we don't know how that works, and we have not seen it yet in action, or there is an unknown way to make 5,000 solar mass black holes very close in time to the Big Bang, but who knows what happened in the dark early ages of the universe ?

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Solar_Mass
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=solar mass