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    Earth mass (denoted as M🜨, M♁ or ME, where 🜨 and ♁ are the astronomical symbols for Earth), is a unit of mass equal to the mass of the planet Earth...
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    than it does on Earth because of the lower gravity, but it would still have the same mass. This is because weight is a force, while mass is the property...
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    Moon (redirect from Lunar mass)
    planetary-mass object or satellite planet. Its mass is 1.2% that of the Earth, and its diameter is 3,474 km (2,159 mi), roughly one-quarter of Earth's (about...
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    precisely, the mass of the sun is M☉ = (1.9884±0.00007)×1030 kg. The solar mass is about 333000 times the mass of Earth (ME), or 1047 times the mass of Jupiter...
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    A Super-Earth is a type of exoplanet with a mass higher than Earth's, but substantially below those of the Solar System's ice giants, Uranus and Neptune...
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  • dwarfs and Neptune-mass planets. Earth mass (ME) is the unit of mass equal to that of the Earth. 1 ME = 5.9742×1024 kg. Earth mass is often used to describe...
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  • (MJ) for large gas giant planets, and the mass of Earth (ME) for smaller rocky terrestrial planets. The mass of a planet within the Solar System is an...
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    the walls, on the roof, or that is entirely buried underground. Earth acts as thermal mass, making it easier to maintain a steady indoor air temperature...
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    material loosed from Earth after a Mars-sized object with about 10% of Earth's mass, named Theia, collided with Earth. It hit Earth with a glancing blow...
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  • Mass Effect: New Earth is a theatrical motion simulator amusement park ride at California's Great America in Santa Clara, California. It is an adaptation...
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    seconds to hundreds of years. Mass wasting occurs on both terrestrial and submarine slopes, and has been observed on Earth, Mars, Venus, Jupiter's moon...
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  • Missa Gaia/Earth Mass is an album released by Paul Winter in 1982 for Living Music. He co-wrote the mass with Paul Halley, Jim Scott, Oscar Castro-Neves...
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    result was originally expressed as the relative density of Earth, or equivalently the mass of Earth. His experiment gave the first accurate values for these...
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    causes the object to orbit with the same period as Earth, in effect orbiting an Earth+Sun mass with the Earth-Sun barycenter at one focus of its orbit. The...
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    gravity of Earth, denoted by g, is the net acceleration that is imparted to objects due to the combined effect of gravitation (from mass distribution...
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    frequency, G is the gravitational constant, and M is the mass of the planet. For the Earth ⁠1/q⁠ ≈ 289, which is close to the measured inverse flattening...
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  • M🜨 or M♁ for Earth mass. The earliest type of symbols are allegories, personifications or deifications, mostly in the form of an Earth goddess (in the...
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    extinction event (also known as a mass extinction or biotic crisis) is a widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth. Such an event is identified...
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    Sun (redirect from Earth's sun)
    From Earth, it is 1 AU (1.496×108 km) or about 8 light-minutes away. Its diameter is about 1,391,400 km (864,600 mi), 109 times that of Earth. Its mass is...
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    Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Among astronomers who use the geophysical definition of a planet, two or three planetary-mass satellites – Earth's Moon, Io,...
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    A mega-Earth is a proposed neologism for a massive terrestrial exoplanet that is at least ten times the mass of Earth. Mega-Earths would be substantially...
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    (2009). "Proposals for the masses of the three largest asteroids, the Moon-Earth mass ratio and the Astronomical Unit". Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy...
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    Ansgar; Anglada-Escudé, G. (13 August 2019). "Red Dots: A temperate 1.5 Earth-mass planet in a compact multi-terrestrial planet system around GJ1061". Monthly...
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    Earth's rotation or Earth's spin is the rotation of planet Earth around its own axis, as well as changes in the orientation of the rotation axis in space...
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    constituents of Earth's atmosphere are nitrogen, oxygen, and argon. Water vapor accounts for roughly 0.25% of the atmosphere by mass. The concentration...
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    composition. Earth is included for comparison. Note that mass and radius values prefixed with "~" have not been measured, but are estimated from a mass-radius...
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    a mass about 6.8 times that of the Earth, it is classified as a super-Earth (a category of planets with masses greater than Earth's up to ten Earth masses)...
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    gravity. At the Earth's surface, an object whose mass is exactly one kilogram weighs approximately 9.81 newtons, the product of its mass and the gravitational...
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    considerations, this hypothetical super-Earth-sized planet would have had a predicted mass of five to ten times that of the Earth, and an elongated orbit 400 to...
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    deep ocean. Although 70.8% of all Earth's surface is covered in water, water accounts for only 0.05% of Earth's mass. An extraterrestrial ocean could be...
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