Question: How much would a thimbleful of a neutron star weigh out of interest?
Asked by issiphee1 to Iain, Jo, Leo on 24 Jun 2010 in Categories: General.
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letstakeajourney
commented on 24 Jun 2010: what is a neutron star?
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x9hayley4x
commented on 24 Jun 2010: a neutron star is a star that is made up completely of neutrons and it can be formed as the result of the gravitational collapse of a massive star
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It depends on which part of the neutron star you were weighting. Assuming that a thimblefull is about one cubic centimeter, then with the density of the crust of a neutron star, it would weight about a tonne. However, if we were to take the core of the neutron star, it would be a lot heavier, around 100 billion tonnes, which is about the weight of 1000 mount everests.
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Sorry, I know hardly anything about astronomy.
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A neutron star has a density of around 3.7×10^17 kg/m^3. Let’s say a thimble holds about 1cm^3 of water. So the weight of a thimble full of neutron star is:
3.7×10^17 x 1×10^-6 = 3.7×10^11 kg
Which is around the mass of about 12 million elephants.
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