  A number of solar filaments/prominences demonstrate failed eruptions, when a
filament at first suddenly starts to ascend and then decelerates and stops at
some greater height in the corona. The mechanism of the termination of
eruptions is not clear yet. One of the confining forces able to stop the
eruption is the gravity force. Using a simple model of a partial
current-carrying torus loop anchored to the photosphere and photospheric
magnetic field measurements as the boundary condition for the potential
magnetic field extrapolation into the corona, we estimated masses of 15
eruptive filaments. The values of the filament mass show rather wide
distribution in the range of $4\times10^{15}$ -- $270\times10^{16}$g. Masses of
the most of filaments, laying in the middle of the range, are in accordance
with estimations made earlier on the basis of spectroscopic and white-light
observations.
