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Mass of the Eiffel Tower

Mass of the Eiffel Tower (7.3 million kg)

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Mass of the Eiffel Tower (7.3 million kg)

  • is 40 x Mass of the (now retired) Concorde supersonic airliner (185,000 kg)...more
  • is 250 x Mass of the Apollo program Command Module in Lunar orbit (28,800 kg)...more

If this was a standard unit ...

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