DSS Question

I have been playing Elite for a while now but still haven't figured out what the mass scale on the left of the DSS is for, anyone give me an idea.
 
Whoever designed the interface wanted it symmetrical, I guess, and given the "complexity" of the mini-game, that was the only information they could put there that was even slightly relevant.
 
Yes, it's a logaritmic scale where 1 is the mass of the Earth.
The symbol at the bottom, next to the M (circle with meridian lines) is the offical astronomical symbol for planet Earth.

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