How many elephants could fit in the sun?

Answer 1

First, Calculate the volume of the Sun, call it X.

Second, calculate the volume of an elephant (or a good guess). Call it Y.

Third, divide X by Y = the number of elephants that could fit into the Sun.

Numeric solution example

Volume of the Sun = 1.4 x 1027 m3

An elephant (Indian, male, mature) weighs about 5 tons and swims just about submerged so its volume is about 5 m3

Therefore the Sun has the same volume as 3 x 1026 elephants.

Note: No reduction for packing losses is used. For spheres, the maximum packing is 75%. This could be higher for elephants, possibly 80% to 85% of the volume figure.

Answer 2

It will take about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Answer 3

1.4 x 10^35 or 140 decillion ants assuming an ant volume of 10 mm2 and sun volume of 1.4x10^18 km3.

Answer 4

Our sun is well over a thousand times the mass of all the planets, asteroids, comets, and other material in our solar system combined. You could fit 1.4 million planets the size of earth inside a volume occupied by our sun, assuming you squished them together instead of stacking them like marbles, or 1046 planets the size of Jupiter.

Answer 5

Antares is so big that billion Suns can fit inside it. It is bigger than all stars like, Sirlus A, our Sun, Pollux, Arcturus, Rigel, Aldebaran, Betelguese. It is the biggest stars in the Solar System.

Answer 6

Antares is about 800 times larger than our Sun.

So about 512,000,000 (512 million)

See related link for a size comparison.

Answer 7

Zillion's

Answer 8

They would be dead before they got near

Answer 9

6 trillion.

Answer 10

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