Originally Posted by YoYoMa16
Was perplexed by on of the posts about the weight of the earth and I just had to find out -
5.972 sextillion metric tons, or
5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
The weight of the earth is 0. The original question on the oral was probably a "trick" question from the examiner. Like all objects "hanging" in space, the earth is "weightless".
However, the figure you quote above is the calculated "mass" of the earth.
The strangest question(s) I was ever asked in an interview: 1. If you were a color, what color would you be? 2. What was the last thing you cleaned?