Strangely, âposhliâ (which means âletâs goâ or âletâs head outâ in Russian) is actually the past tense of the verb meaning âTo head off on foot.â In other words, âposhliâ literally means, âWe (or they) headed off on foot.â How can a word which is in the past tense indicate the desire to head off somewhere now?
Earth's mass is approximately 7024597000000000000â 5.97Ã1024 kg (5,970 yg). It is composed mostly of iron (32.1%), oxygen (30.1%), silicon (15.1%), magnesium (13.9%), sulfur (2.9%), nickel (1.8%), calcium (1.5%), and aluminium (1.4%), with the remaining 1.2% consisting of trace amounts of other elements.
How Large is the Earth Compared to the Universe? or, Using the Earth to build a Road to Pluto. Let's start with how big the Earth is. Well, the average diameter of the Earth is 7926 miles, which gives it a radius of 3963 miles and a volume of 261 billion cubic miles of Earth earth (see arithmetic in the last paragraph).