How much does the earth weigh?

Answer 1

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1006011200147

quick answer... appearantly 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons

Answer 2

It would be more proper to ask, "What is the mass of planet Earth?" Approximately 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (6E+24) kilograms.

The interesting sub-question is, "How did anyone figure that out?" It's not like the planet steps onto the scale each morning before it takes a shower. The measurement of the planet's weight is derived from the gravitational attraction that the Earth has for objects near it.

t turns out that any two masses have a gravitational attraction for one another. If you put two bowling balls near each other, they will attract one another gravitationally. The attraction is extremely slight, but if your instruments are sensitive enough you can measure the gravitational attraction that two bowling balls have on one another. From that measurement, you could determine the mass of the two objects. The same is true for two golf balls, but the attraction is even slighter because the amount of gravitational force depends on mass of the objects.

Answer 3

Zero. Though the earth has mass, it doesn't "weigh" anything. Earth's mass is 5.972x10^24 kg. Hope that helps. The answer above mine is wrong. It says tons, the answer is kilograms.

Answer 4

The mass of the earth is 5.9742×1024 kg

Answer 5

5.98 x 10^24 kilograms

or, 598 followed by 24 zeros, kilograms.

Answer 6

Two times as much as half its weight. Right?

Answer 7

buy a big scale and go find out

Answer 8

when I find a big enough scale I will tell you.
lol

Answer 9

impossible to calculate