To: Manuel OKelley; Red Badger
The excerpt clearly states, "It's a huge 17 kilograms (37.5 pounds)".
17 kg are 37.5 pounds (avoirdupois). My original calculation thus stands. These cannot be troy pounds.
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32 posted on
11/30/2021 7:18:39 AM PST by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: alexander_busek; Jonty30; Manuel OKelley
True, I was not trying to correct you, just making a statement as to usual business practice that the writer did not explain.............
34 posted on
11/30/2021 7:20:44 AM PST by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: alexander_busek; Manuel OKelley; Red Badger; Jonty30
Everybody’s right, sort of. The meteorite weighs just about 600 avoirdupois ounces, true, but if you want to compare it to ounces of gold, you need to convert to troy weight at 31.1 grams per troy ounce, so the thing weighs 546.6 troy ounces, or 45.5 troy pounds.
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