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Old 12-Jun-2006, 00:03   #12
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Originally Posted by Athelstan
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Easy - they measure the mass of the large rock - then weigh a tiny piece of the same type of rock and measure the mass of that little bit - then they simply multiple the weight by the difference in the mass of the two pieces.

My mental vision of them levering it up onto a massive set of bathroom scales was wrong then?!
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