VIDEO: Scientist Estimates Weight of Thor’s Hammer

VIDEO: Scientist Estimates Weight of Thor’s Hammer

Pop-culture's favorite astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson took to Twitter to weigh in on a classic comic technical question: How much does Mjölnir, Thor’s magic hammer, really weigh?

By ComicBookMovie - Feb 08, 2013 09:02 AM EST
Filed Under: Thor

The short answer? 300 Billion Elephants, or 4.5 quadrillion (4,500,000,000,000,000) pounds. Of course being a scientist, he doesn't factor in whether the magical component to the Uru makes it that heavy ONLY when an "unworthy" person tries to lift it, or if it weighs that much all the time.

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