Sentence examples for it is less massive from inspiring English sources

It is less massive than the dwarf planet Eris, a trans-Neptunian object discovered in 2005.

If it was less massive, its force would probably not be great enough to perturb Neptune.

Bim purvey a breezy version of the latter's torpid, torrid trip-hop – it's less massive, and it doesn't attack, it soothes while Rosier's voice sighs and whispers, like Dido and Sarah Cracknell's sweetly sibilant kid sister.

The point was that it was serious enough to pursue charges, not that it was less massive than other cases.

The moon's southern hemisphere is less massive than it would be were there no ocean, but its northern hemisphere is not.

A brown dwarf is less massive than a star, so there is less gravity available to pull it together.

But Saturn is less massive than Jupiter and so had less total energy content at the time both planets were formed.

Mars: Although further from the sun, is less massive than Earth or Venus, and so retains principally only the heavy gas, carbon dioxide.

Even though a deuteron is less massive by about 2.2 MeV (mega-electron volts) than an individual, free proton or neutron, the photons are energetic enough to more than make up for that mass difference.

The star is less massive and far less luminous than the Sun.

This gas giant is larger than Jupiter, but is less massive, and thus more diffuse.