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wight weight 0 f the planets linets it a ham weighing 30 pounds ft ere taken up to the woon moon and weighed there the pull the attractive force ot of the moon upon the ham would amount to only five pounds there would bo be weight ot of the ham lor for the planet mars and yet another on the sun A ham weighing so 30 pounds at new york tork ought to weigh come pounds on the suns surface alence the astion asti anomer orner does not speak of the weight ot of a planet because that would df depend pend upon the place where it was weighed dut lie speaks ot of the mass of the planet which means how bow much planet there la is no matter where it might be weighed at the same time says current literature we me might without any inexactness agree that the weight of a heavenly body should he be fixed by the weight it would have in new york ks s we could not imagine a planet in new york be cause it may be ba larger than the earth mit itself self what we are to imagine is this the planet could be divided into a million million million equal parts and one of these bi ought brought to new york and weighed we could easily find its weight in pounds or 01 tons then multiply this by a million Yn million tillon million and we ae shall have c r wight weight of the planet this would be equivalent to what nhat astion astronomers omers might take as the mass of the planet |