Gravitational binding energy of some stuff

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jetwaterluffy

Just interested.

>GBE of the milky way?
>GBE of the Virgo supercluster?
>GBE of the sloan great wall?

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Drakkith

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You can find the formula to estimate some of this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_binding_energy
I'm not sure how well it applies to non-spherical objects though.

jetwaterluffy

Even if it did apply, I don't know the mass of virgo or the sloan great wall.

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