How heavy is 60 pounds?
It's about 0.00000008 times as heavy as The Empire State Building
The weight of The Empire State Building is about 730,000,000 pounds.
(New York City, New York)
The Empire State Building weighs approximately 730,000,000 pounds. About 4% of the building's weight is its 6,000 cu. m (200,000 cu. ft) of limestone façade.
It's about 0.00000004 times as heavy as The Golden Gate Bridge
The weight of The Golden Gate Bridge is about 1,770,000,000 pounds.
(San Francisco, California and Marin County, California) (Post 1986 weight reduction; total weight of bridge, anchorage, and approaches)
Following the completion of the 1986 project to eliminate excess material, the total weight of the Golden Gate Bridge — including its anchorages and approaches — is 1,770,000,000 pounds. The two main cables in the spanning the bridge are spun out of a total of 129,000 km (80,200 mi) of wire.
It's about 45,000,000 times as heavy as a Grain of Sugar
The weight of a Grain of Sugar is about 0.000001380 pounds.
(a.k.a. white sugar, a.k.a. white refined sugar, a.k.a. table sugar, a.k.a. sucrose, a.k.a. saccharose)
A grain of sugar weighs approximately 0.000001380 pounds. Sugar consumption varies widely by country; the average citizen of the United States consumes about 135 pounds of sugar each year.
It's about 90,000,000 times as heavy as a Poppy Seed
The weight of a Poppy Seed is about 0.000000660 pounds.
(Papaver somniferum)
Fifty percent oil by weight, a poppy seed weighs approximately 0.000000660 pounds. The true pigment of a poppy seed is brown in color, while the characteristic bluish color is an optical illusion caused by a layer of calcium oxalate crystals refracting light rays.
It's about 0.000000005 times as heavy as The Great Pyramid of Giza
The weight of The Great Pyramid of Giza is about 13,000,000,000 pounds.
(a.k.a. Pyramid of Khufu, a.k.a. Pyramid of Cheops) (Cairo, Egypt)
The Great Pyramid of Giza has an estimated mass of 13,000,000,000 pounds. The 2,300,000 stones used in the construction of the pyramid weighed an average 5,000 pounds and were quarried from distances of up to 805 km (500 mi) away.
It's about 450,000,000 times as heavy as a Grain of Salt
The weight of a Grain of Salt is about 0.0000001290 pounds.
The mass of a grain of salt is approximately 0.0000001290 pounds. Salt consumption varies widely by country; the people of the United States consume a combined total of about 126,000,000 pounds of salt each year.
It's about 0.00000000000000000000000000002 times as heavy as The Sun
The weight of The Sun is about 4,399,999,999,999,999,411,952,405,184,512.000000000000000000000000000000000 pounds.
The sun has a mass of 4,400,000,000,000,000,452,283,919,107,096,576.000000000000000000000000000000000000 pounds which represents 99.9% of the solar system's total mass. 98.7% of the sun's mass consists of hydrogen and helium — respectively the lightest and second-lightest elements in the universe.
It's about 0.000000000000000000000005 times as heavy as The Earth
The weight of The Earth is about 13,169,999,999,999,999,945,474,048.000000000000000000000000000000 pounds.
The mass of the planet Earth is 13,169,999,999,999,999,945,474,048.000000000000000000000000000000 pounds. The element iron makes up about 32% of that mass, or 4,227,400,000,000,000,132,120,576.000000000000000000000000000000 pounds.