On Feb 27, 9:40*pm, " wrote:


I didi a search on her name and found another site that said the
weight was 7,000 tons instead of 700,000 tons.

http://www.nature.com/news/russian-m...entury-1.12438

So I suspect that CNN got confused by the notation she used , or
something like that. *My experience with the media is that they are
not very accurate.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Dan


And checking a third site ..........................

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...est-in-century


has it weighing 40 tons.

Dan