• Question: how much does a earth weigh

    Asked by anon-267450 to Pratik on 5 Nov 2020.
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      Pratik Samant answered on 5 Nov 2020: last edited 5 Nov 2020 2:46 pm

      I don’t know off the top of my head. 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000,000kg is the earth mass according to an internet search. That is an insanely huge number that we humans simply can’t easily comprehend, so let me try and explain just how huge that number is.

      Let’s pretend that every human weighs as much as a blue whale. We have 7.71 billion people and a blue whale weighs about 190 000kg. When we multiply those numbers we get 1.5 quadrillion kg, or 1,500,000,000,000,000. This is a big number, but is not even close to the earth’s mass! I would still need about 10 billion times that to get close.

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