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Correction for the weight of a Baseball

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How heavy is 5.90 megatonnes?
It's about 40,000,000,000 times as heavy as a Baseball
The weight of a Baseball is about 0.000000000145291306015630 megatonnes.
(MLB rules)
Per Major League Baseball rules, a baseball must weigh between 0.0000000001417476156250 megatonnes and 0.000000000148834996406250 megatonnes. A major league pitcher can throw a baseball at up to 150 kph (91 mph) (with a fastball pitch), with record-setting pitches as fast as 171 kph (106 mph).
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