Relative rotation rates and axial tilts of (the only) mapped planets and dwarf planets, at 10hours/sec [OC]

The entire planet is made up of mostly helium and hydrogen, just like the sun. I think Jupiter is something like 99% H and He. The other 1% is just random shit that got caught up in the gravity well. If Jupiter had more mass, like 10 times more or something, it could be its own star because of the H and He it has. It'd be a brown dwarf, but still could undergo fusion if the mass/gravity was there.

I can't find a cool video that nicely explains and animates, so I posted thge wiki entry for the early creation of the solar system. If you hit the right information, it'll explain why the outer planets are gas giants, and the inners are rocky. Why does Jupiter contain so much H and He, but so little heavy elements? The current theories on the how the solar formed are pretty cool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formation_and_evolution_of_the_Solar_System

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