Solar System: Mass in pounds

[AviatorTrainman]

Mass is given in lbs. Shouldn't it be kg, since that's SI units, and lbs are not even a unit of mass?

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[mintsoft]

Agree completely, however I think it might depend on your region settings? For me it shows in KG:

Just to be unbelievably pedantic, lbs is confusingly both mass and force:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(mass)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(force)

[mintsoft]

Yeah it does: https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies/blob/master/lib/DDG/Goodie/SolarSystem.pm#L54 https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies/blob/master/t/SolarSystem.t#L82

Looks like you can force it into sensible units irrespective of location if you add "metric" on the end: https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies/blob/master/lib/DDG/Goodie/SolarSystem.pm#L47