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To: Lonesome in Massachussets; tortoise

Just a bit of curiousity, perhaps you can help me.

Mass of the 2004MN4 is given as 4.6e+10 kg

The online converter I used gave that as 39811 kilograms

That converted to 87,768.2311984 pounds, or almost 44 tons.

That seems like an awfully small number for an object with a diamter of .320 km (about a fifth of a mile), unless it's frozen gas.

Oh, wait, never mind... I found this page works better:

http://www.onlineconversion.com/weight_all.htm

46000000000 kilogram = 101,412,640,605.044 pounds
46000000000 kilogram = 50,706,320.3025218 tons [short]

Fifty million tons. Much better.


232 posted on 02/28/2005 10:43:47 AM PST by SunkenCiv (last updated my FreeRepublic profile on Sunday, February 20, 2005.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Glad to help.


233 posted on 02/28/2005 11:15:41 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Deadcheck the embeds first.)
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