How does the planets distance from the sun affect the planets mass?

Inner planets are small because the heat of the Sun baked off the hydrogen. The outer planets are large because they were colder and did not get the hydrogen baked off. Among the outer planets, they get smaller as you get further out because they formed nearer the edge of the cloud that supplied the material. There was just less to build from.

the only real purpose of sputnik 1 was to beat the us into space. we were getting close to launching a useful satellite, explorer 1 - which launched on january 31, 1958. the ussr had to beat that, so they launched sputnik 1 on october 4, 19