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5 Sep 2024 17:14:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Astromonical numbers  
From: Darren New
Date: 11 Jun 2009 12:12:10
Message: <4a312cda$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> 6.0 10^23 Number of atoms in 12 g of Carbon-12.

You realize why this number is important, right? :-)

> 8.1 10^53 Number of elements in The Monster Group.

I haven't any idea what this is. :-)

<google>  Oh, see, this is the sort of thing I'd have to spend a day chasing 
references around to even figure out what this means.

> 4 10^68 Number of H atoms in a "typical" galaxy.

> 4 10^41 Kg  Mass of a "typical" galaxy.

68-23=45 45-3=42. One power of ten missing.

> 3 10^52 Kg  Mass of the observable universe (exluding Dark Matter).

I wonder if they're just talking about rest mass or what.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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