Quote Originally Posted by Vareck Bostrom View Post
The text says 5,986 x 10^24 kg - is the comma intended there rather than a decimal? That would be 5.986 x 10^27 kg, more than the mass of Jupiter.
That's actually a decimal comma, which many languages use instead of a decimal point. Naima is, presumably, a native speaker of one of those languages (namely Italian), so the intended reading is, in fact, 5.986 x 10^24 kg (as it would be written in English).