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from RTT, Fri 7th May, 11:11am

Clearly the person who filled in the numbers on the Google Calculator was spectacularly lazy....

by The mass of the Sun is 1 - Fri 7th May 2004, 12:39pm

Ergs, dynes per square centimetre....

And people say that Astronomy hasn't embraced the SI units revolution. Hah!

by I'm probably wrong, but - Fri 7th May 2004, 3:55pm

Are you sure that's right Will? It doesn't look like a unit of mass to me???

by gf - Fri 7th May 2004, 4:08pm

The mass of the Sun is 1

Shurely shome mishtake? The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas

by Mike - Fri 7th May 2004, 4:24pm

I'm probably wrong, but said: Are you sure that's right Will? It doesn't look like a unit of mass to me???

He's definitely correct...

by Richard - Fri 7th May 2004, 5:02pm

I'm not disputing that the Mass of the Sun is 1 Solar Mass.

Is 1 Solar Mass = 1 Erg dyne per cm^2 as per Will's post??

Given that 1 Erg = 10^-7 Joules, 1 dyne is 10^-5 Newtons, and 1 cm^2 = 10^-4 m^2

Presumably 1 Erg dyne per cm^2 = 10^-8 kg m^3 s^-4 - which doesn't look like a unit of mass.

Or am I just getting confused