Asteroid the size of 100 hot dogs to pass Earth on Monday - NASA (www.jpost.com)

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Obligatory "Americans will use everything but the metric system" joke aside, I wonder how astronomers can even discover an asteroid this small.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

The "size" of 100 hot dogs is misleading. It is not a pile of 100 hot dogs to demonstrate the volume of the asteroid, but a line of 100 hot dogs to demonstrate the diameter, which is 16 meters. So in volume, this is a lot more than 100 hot dogs!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Still not very big.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

You know, I think that's a good thing, I don't think I'd be excited for an enormous asteroid headed towards Earth.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

And here I was thinking that it was 100 hotdogs lined up end-to-end. What a deceptive headline!

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