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Mass of Comet 67P, Rosetta's Comet

Mass of Comet 67P, Rosetta's Comet (10 trillion kg)

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Mass of Comet 67P, Rosetta's Comet (10 trillion kg)

  • is 1/200 of Mass of Deimos (moon of Mars) (2 quadrillion kg)...more
  • is 1/4 of Mass of water in the Three Gorges Dam (China) (39.3 trillion kg)...more

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Is That A Big Number? - The Book

Yes, there's now a book based on these numbers. Oxford University Press: July 2018.

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