Even more fascinating, the supermassive black hole is about 14% of the total mass of the galaxy.
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Once the ice is fully afloat its effective contribution to the total mass of the ocean has been made.
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Curiosity carries 10 science instruments with a total mass 15 times as large as the science payloads on NASA's Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.
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As a result, only the total mass of replacements would need to be estimated instead of a prediction of which specific components might be needed.
The visible matter in the universe (stars) adds up to less than 5 percent of the total mass that is known to exist from many other observations.
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Even assuming at the time of its formation that the belt was 100 times more massive than today, he says, its total mass would have been only about half that of Mars.
Since the total mass of the ocean and ice remains unchanged during the melting process, this has often led to the erroneous assumption that sea level will be unaffected by the melting of floating ice, say geologists David Holland and Adrian Jenkins.
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To assess the contribution from melting ice sheets, scientists try to measure "mass balance, " which is the difference between the annual snow that falls on the permanent ice sheets each year, and the total mass of ice that melts or breaks off the sheets.
That would mean putting fuel crops on just about every square inch of the U.S. (total land mass, 1.9 billion acres).
That would mean putting fuel crops on just about every square inch of the country (total land mass, 1.9 billion acres).
In all three, warming projections suggest the total vulnerable land mass will steadily increase, almost doubling in Manila.
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There also is a significant difference between what physicists believe should be the total amount of mass in the universe and what they have observed so far.
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Instead of mass marketing it, total production will be cut off at just 100.
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Gun control is not the total answer to the problem of mass shootings, but it plainly needs to be part of any meaningful response.
If an actual scare did occur, it says that history has shown that a mass exodus resulting in total chaos does not happen if the protocols are rehearsed and communities are knowledgable.
Using Harps data, the astronomers also counted a total of 45 candidate planets with a mass below 30 Earth masses.
Chief Executive Patrick Doyle, speaking to analysts in a conference call last week, said such savings are showing up now that mobile and online orders combined have reached a "critical mass" of more than a third of total sales.
Christie cut the state budget to its smallest total in five years with major cuts to schools, municipalities, mass transit and other areas .
However, based on accounts from victims and witnesses, the CNDH documented 214 cases of mass kidnapping from April to September 2010, involving a total of 11, 333 people.
One of the tour leaders on our boat estimated that the total number of people who have actually set foot on this land mass -- tourists, scientists and explorers -- would fill a very large football stadium.
There were even 100 priests here to hear confessions from the early risers, part of a total of 1, 300 priests, 250 bishops and 14 cardinals attending Mass.
This is the mass production that China is famed for, with the company today employing a total of 1, 500 people and making around seven million pairs of scissors and three million knives a year.
He climbed aboard the Jeep before the Mass began and took a ride through the throng in the square, spending 17 minutes in total circling through the crowds.
The WARN Act requires employers to provide 90 days of notice before a mass layoff, defined as a reduction in workforce by 250 jobs (or 33 percent of the total) at one site.
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