How much does the ATLAS detector at CERN weigh?
7,000 tAbout 7,720 US tons · Giant
About 7,000 tonnes, the largest-volume particle detector ever built.
That's about 82,000 big red kangaroos (85 kg each).
🔬7,000 t
✈️the An-225
By weight: the ATLAS detector is about 11× heavier than the An-225.
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