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- Mirrorswarm uses SI units and Earth time (day,hour,year,kg,s,mol,cd,Ampere,Kelvin,m). E-notation with no spaces is acceptable.
- The host planet Mercury ("Host") is low-gravity which will help get the swarm into orbit. It is close to the the swarm, between the host and the sun.
- Avogadro says there are 6E23 atoms in every mol of material. A mol of the elements of the host is 54g.
- The raw material for the swarm and its factories is elements. These elements will be extracted from the host. There are fewer then a hundred elements needed.
- The construction material for the swarm and its factories is the nanite. This is a general purpose machine consisting of fewer than 1E20 atoms (0.25g). Teams will specify the performance requirements and design of the nanite.
- The 1% of the host which is available as raw material has a mass of 3.3E21kg and makes up to 1.3E25 nanites.