95 sextillion people via Oort + Kuiper (was It takes a lot of nitrogen to)

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# 12320 byhitssquad@... on March 14, 2012, 8:30 p.m.
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--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "William" wrote:
> The Oort Cloud is estimated at 5 Earth masses.

...Then it must not have been counted here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Solar_System_objects_by_size

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The relative masses of the solid bodies of the Solar System. Earth at 48% and Venus at 39% dominate.
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> So the estimated amount of nitrogen in these would be 2.27e22 [Kuiper] and 1.12e24 kg [Oort] respectively.

Thanks. So, plugging that into my tiny-10psi-room-for-each-person formula:

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There's only 12e18 kilograms of nitrogen on the planet (4e18 in the atmosphere, and 8e18 in the crust and mantle). At 12 kg per person, that's enough to build only 1 quintillion people, allowing each 2 kg for protein, with 10 kilograms left over for 500 cubic feet each of 10-psi atmosphere.
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...we get maximum populations of 1.89e21 people (Kuiper), 9.33e22 people (Oort), and 9.52e22 people (Kuiper + Oort) -- or 95.2 sextillion people. I hope they all like their (not quite) 8x8x8 foot rooms.