The Mass of the Planets

I only want to review a different measure unit, the unit for the mass of the planets, at least the Solar System planets.

The calculation of the mass of the planets is outside the scope of this entry.

Both for measure the mass of the Solar System planets as for measure the mass of other different types objects and planets of this and other solar systems, we use as reference the mass of the Earth.

Thereby, for heavier planets or stelar objects, the value will be greater than 1. Whereas that for lighter ones the value will be smaller than 1.

And only if has the same mass as the Earth, the mass value will be 1.

But what's the real value (in kilograms) that represents the mass of the Earth as 1?
The response is, aproximately 5,9 x 10²⁴ kg

In this way, all masses will be expressed related to the Earth mass. The mass unit is "Earth"

I list here some interesting masses:

Object	Type	(Relative mass aproximately) Earth
The Sun	Star	333000
Mercury	Terrestrial Planet	0,06
Venus	Terrestrial Planet	0,82
Earth	Terrestrial Planet	1
Mars	Terrestrial Planet	0,11
Jupiter	Gas Giant Planet	317,8
Saturn	Gas Giant Planet	95,2
Uranus	Gas Giant Planet	14,6
Neptune	Gas Giant Planet	17,2
Ceres	Dwarf Planet	0,00016
Pluto	Dwarf Planet	0,82
Haumea	Dwarf Planet	0,0007
Makemake	Dwarf Planet	0,0007
Eris	Dwarf Planet	0,0028
The Moon	Natural Satellite	0.0123

  More information:

• An interesting NASA site with a didactic tool that allows user to compare the mass of two Solar System objects using a balance: Click here to go
• Bibliography:
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet
• http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistema_Solar
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun