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Re:Android: float GRAVITY_DEATH_STAR_I by jgrahamc on Friday November 07, 2008 @02:44PM (#357003)
1.354e14 kg assuming the Death Star has a radius of 160 km. However there's conflicting information about the diameter of the Death Star (some say 120 km, others 160 km) and that's the diameter and not the radius.

So the Death Star would be considerably lighter than your friend's calculation.

My calculations give 3.385e13 kg assuming a radius of 80 km which yields a density of 1.578e-2 kg/m3 or 15.78 g/m3 which is way, way low. In fact it's much lower than the density of air.

Three possibilities: I made a mistake in my calculation, Google's gravity value for the Death Star is incorrect, we shouldn't expect consistency from a story George Lucas made up almost 40 years ago.

Re:Android: float GRAVITY_DEATH_STAR_I by iron_ball on Friday November 07, 2008 @04:41PM (#357126)
Wouldn't you assume the Death Star has artificial earth-normal gravity, just like all the spaceships? (Not to crash the geeky fun with geeky observations.)
Re:Android: float GRAVITY_DEATH_STAR_I by markbao on Friday November 07, 2008 @04:32PM (#357112)
I think it's that you made a mistake. How could the other possibilities be true!?

;)

Re:Android: float GRAVITY_DEATH_STAR_I by tsbardella on Wednesday November 12, 2008 @12:36PM (#362037)
Plus the Death Star was full of really dense stuff that was fuel or some ship