Originally published at: Texas struck by meteor the size of a thousand-pound corgi | Boing Boing
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I’m sorry; could you please convert that to proper units?
Then we can just look at it.
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Don’t worry, it was only like a thousand pounds of feathers hit you!
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Roughly 1974.25 cups of mayonnaise.
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That paragraph left me cackling like a fool.
NASA said the meteorite doesn’t appear to have caused any damage. But it did have the power of about 8 tons of TNT.
I wonder where all that energy went? The photo doesn’t show a whole lot of damage.
Edit: Oh, I see, it broke up in the atmosphere; going from one Corgi to three Guinea Pigs; each weighing approximately 1be.
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I’m still confused. Assuming the specific gravity of a corgi is 1.0 and on average weighs 20 lbs… wtf is that meteor made of to make it weigh 1000 lbs?
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meteor in question was just over 60 centimeters in diameter and weighed half a ton (or around 454 kilograms)
ok, stand-back, i’ve got my speak-n-spell abacus fired up:
60 cm in diameter is a: 113097.34 cm³ sphere
so the density of this meteoric_corgi is: 4.014 g/cm³
and that as compared to pure iron at 7.874 g/cm³ amounts to nothing all that special for a meteorite.
but what is special is an “over 60 cm” corgi. isn’t that a rather large corgi? (“well they’re rather prolate, and not a sphere, y’know”)
addendumdum: Simpsons did it! as far as comparing meteorites to dog (bits)
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Dark Matter.
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rock with the density of four baby elephants
No. No. That’s as correct as
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That’s an old reference; at least 3 parsecs.
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Why, that’s as dense as lead foam!
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But what we really need to know in order to conceptualize this is, if laid end to end, how many would it take to reach the moon?
Also, corgis!
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Yep, that density seems roughly typical for an ordinary chondrite meteorite, which comprise the vast majority of meteorites found on Earth.
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As we discussed when this came up in the odd stuff thread:
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Nobody said it was the same volume as a standard Corgi. 
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Is that a standard metric corgi or a standard imperial corgi?
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More importantly, European or African? Are you suggesting Corgis are migratory?
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I don’t know
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Since we’re discussing “stupid units that the press won’t let go of”, can we add “football fields” and “Olympic swimming pools” to the list?
I have no goddam idea how big an American football field is (if you say 100 yards long, you’re gettin’ punched) and I have even less idea how big an official Olympic pool is.
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