Originally published at: Truck-size asteroid will pass extraordinarily close to Earth today | Boing Boing
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estimated to be 11.5 to 28 feet (3.5 to 8.5 meters) across
So a juvenile giraffe to minke-whale sized asteroid, then?
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What kind of truck? A 1975 Datsun pickup or a Mack truck? Does it include the trailer?
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Large asteroid the size of a small asteroid.
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Thank Krishna’s cornflakes for “amateur astronomers” looking out(wards) for us! That way our “space force” [martial music mode] can take the credit for keeping us safe.
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Please be more specific. According to the JPL:
“…the asteroid will zoom over the southern tip of South America at about 4:27 p.m. PST (7:27 p.m. EST)”
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Ah, I just figured it was going to stop stationary above the planet, like a truck at a rest stop, and wait exactly at the 4:27 pm line while the earth rotates under it for a day.
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I believe London buses and brontosauri are the only acceptable units of length.
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maybe this is one of those “probes of these billions of interstellar civilizations visit(ing) our planet scoping out our technological state” 
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I don’t know wether we should try to make contact or turn the lights off and pretend no one is home.
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Right?
How can you be enamored of cosmological events and simultaneously ignorant of time zones? /smh
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How about a banana for scale? “Just look at it!” I have one here holds banana up to screen
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Just look at it!
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Yep. UK radio tells us it’s the size of a bus.
(Crazy US measurements! Trucks, indeed).
Came here for this.
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And what about the mileage?
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Is Musk at it again?
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An SI bus (10 kiloteapots)?
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That’s just perfect.
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