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Mass
kg (kilogram)
Scale of some things
Landmarks
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Rough Draft
kg
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eV 10-36
10-35 a visible-light photon
10-34
keV 10-33
10-32
10-31
MeV 10-30 electron rest mass
10-29
10-28
1-2 amu yg | GeV 10-27 atoms [1] - lightest - Hydrogen | proton
2-19 amu 10-26 atoms [2-10] - light - HElium thru NEon | H2O
19-190 amu 10-25 atoms [11-80] - most - sodium thru mercury
190-1904 amu zg | TeV 10-24 atoms [81-104+] - heavy - lead, etc | nucleotide
10-23
10-22 protein
ag, "zkg" 10-21
10-20 ribosome
10-19
fg, "akg" 10-18
a cube of water: Joule 10-17
side volume 10-16
10-6m 10-18m3 pg, "fkg" 10-15 bacteria
10-14
10-13
10-5m 10-15m3 ng, "pkg" 10-12 cells
10-11
10-10
10-4m 10-12m3 ug, "nkg" 10-9 mm3 stp air
10-8
10-7
mm 10-9m3 mg, "ukg" 10-6 cm3 stp air | mm3 water
10-5 mosquito
10-4
cm 10-6m3 g, "mkg" 10-3 gram | cm3 water
10-2
3 oz 10-1
10-1m 10-3m3 2.2 lb 100 kg | liter water | m3 stp air
101 human child
102 human adult
m m3 Mg, "kkg" 103 ton | car | m3 water
104
105
10 m 103m3 Gg, "Mkg" 106
107
108
102m 106m3 Tg, "Gkg" 109
1010
1011
103m 109m3 Pg, "Tkg" 1012
1013
1014 some mountain
104m 1012m3 Eg, "Pkg" 1015 living organisms (dry weight)
1016 water in atmosphere | biomass above-ground
1017 surface fresh water
105m 1015m3 Zg, "Ekg" 1018 stratosphere
1019 Earth's atmosphere
1020
106m 1018m3 Yg, "Zkg" 1021 Earth's oceans
1022
1023 Moon
"Ykg" 1024 Mercury | Mars | ~Oort cloud
1025 Earth
1026
1027 Saturn & Jupiter
1028
stars 1029 smallest stars
stars 1030 Sun | biggest white-dwarf
stars 1031
stars 1032 biggest stars
1033 some interstellar cloud
1034
1035
1036 some globular cluster
1037
1038
1039 Milky Way interstellar material
galaxies 1040 SMC & LMC
galaxies 1041 Milky Way star systems
galaxies 1042 Milky Way
1043
1044
1045 galactic cluster (Coma)
1046 galactic cluster (Abell)
1047
1048
1049 ~ in spiral galaxies in visible universe
1050 ~ visible matter in visible universe
1051
1052 minimum mass if the universe is to eventually collapse
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A View from the Back of the Envelope
Comments encouraged. - Mitchell N Charity <mcharity@lcs.mit.edu>