Strangely, âposhliâ (which means âletâs goâ or âletâs head outâ in Russian) is actually the past tense of the verb meaning âTo head off on foot.â In other words, âposhliâ literally means, âWe (or they) headed off on foot.â How can a word which is in the past tense indicate the desire to head off somewhere now?
Earth's mass is approximately 7024597000000000000â 5.97Ã1024 kg (5,970 yg). It is composed mostly of iron (32.1%), oxygen (30.1%), silicon (15.1%), magnesium (13.9%), sulfur (2.9%), nickel (1.8%), calcium (1.5%), and aluminium (1.4%), with the remaining 1.2% consisting of trace amounts of other elements.
The mass of Earth is 5.97 x 10 24 kg. Here that is written out: 5,970,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg. Yeah, thatâs a really big number. And yet, itâs only 0.3% the mass of Jupiter (and Jupiter is mostly lightweight hydrogen). We have written many articles about Earth for Universe Today.lue marble Earth. Image credit: NASA. First, the equatorial diameter of Earth is 12,756 km. In other words, if you dug a tunnel on the equator that went straight down and went right through the center of the Earth, it would be about 12,756 km long.