Truck-size asteroid will pass extraordinarily close to Earth today

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But how many bananas?

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This is in space so it has to be a Russell’s teapot.

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El Reg would let us know:

https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html

(sorry, broken preview methinks…)

Their calculator makes it 0.57 to 1.39 giraffes across, or 0.38 to 0.92 double decker buses. Or 1.74 to 4.24 Richard Osmans.

Oh, and it’s moving at around 0.3102% of the maximum velocity of a sheep in a vacuum.

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So, 0.17-0.27 on the Brontosauri scale

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Around here, we only have asteroid-sized trucks.

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Thank you! Someone had to say it.

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Statistically speaking every truck is the appropriate size as some asteroid or another.

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No - it’s Lone Starr and Barf!

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Amateur astronomy has been on a roll lately! Amateur astronauts not so much.

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Any satellites get whacked?

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Have spacesuit, will travel.

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Correct.

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The JWST captures the asteroid at its nearest point to earth:

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This moved me deeply. Thank you!

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I thought only my brother and I watched this show.

Oh, the monohydrazine…

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Ha! That’s one of those shows from my childhood that is so dusty I wasn’t sure whether I remembered or imagined it. Thanks!

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