TOMMY WONDERS
How much the earth weighs. Although the earth cannot b« placed in the scales and weighed like a pound of tea or sugar* scientists have very exact methods bi" which the weight of the earth can be calculated almost to an ounce. And its weight is, about six bilJ
lion trillion tons, a billion being a thousand millions and a trillion a million millions. Or, if you would like it in pounds, write down 12/< 500 followed by 21 noughts. Kt was a great English scientist, Henry Cavendish, who first, devised a method of calculating the earth's weight, and he has been called "the father of the science.''
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 63, 9 April 1943, Page 6
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