How much does the Earth weigh?
A better question is what is the mass of the Earth? Weight is a measure of how much force an object feels due to the gravity at its location. Weight changes depending on where you are. If you weigh 60 kg (132 pounds) on Earth then you weigh about 10 kg (22 lbs) on the Moon because there is about 1/6 the gravity on the moon.
Mass on the other hand is how much matter or stuff an object is made of. The Earth’s mass is 5.972 sextillion (5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000) metric tons. That's a lot of stuff.
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