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swombat on July 24, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: NASA finds water reservoir equivalent to 140 trill...

A cloud containing 140 trillion times the amount of water in our oceans would be pretty hard to miss if it was in our solar system! In fact, it might be bigger than our solar system... Anyone care to do the quick estimate math? (I'm on an iPad, impractical...)

chronomex on July 24, 2011 [–]

That would be a sphere of water with radius <0.25AU: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1.3+billion+cubic+kilom...

(Ocean volume figure is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean )

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