Colossal asteroid the size of 99 narwhals to pass Earth Thursday - NASA

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https://www.jpost.com/science/article-746154

Colossal asteroid the size of 99 narwhals to pass Earth Thursday - NASA

Asteroid 2020 DB5 has no relation to the James Bond car the Aston Martin DB5, but this 850-meter asteroid is set to pass Earth soon, according to NASA.

The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
99 narwhals? How many football fields is that? And bananas? If we stop using standard units I’m lost xD
Size is a terrible word to use. Something with a length of 99 narwhals is far bigger than one with the mass of 99 narwhals.
This is true, someone who is smarter than I will have to figure out how many narwhals it weighs though.
Just under 40,000 narwhals, assuming a narwhal has the mass of 1600 kg and is 5 meters long.
Narwhals sure are an interesting unit of measurement.
The narwhal bacons at midnight 🤪
Not no more it ain't
Hi, OP here, I just want to thank you personally for what you've done.
I'm gonna be real with you, I don't know how big a narwhal is.
Can someone convert that to bananas for me
I came here to complain about the measurement too, so I'm converting it.
The Asteroid is 850m across, which is about 28 blue whales long, or 283 bottlenose dolphins, or 1118 golden retrievers.
How many half giraffes?
Does someone feels the courage to open /m/anythingbutmetric?
Not surprising, that's a pretty small explosion for a day in Texas.

And this is how today I learnt that the Brooklyn Bridge is the size of 99 narwhals: https://usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/13/nasa-asteroid-brooklyn-bridge-passing-earth/70316864007/

And an orca is the size of 1.18 narwhals: https://www.jpost.com/science/article-745973

And, finally, an alpaca is the size of 5.6 orcas or 6.6 narwhals: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/asteroid-the-size-of-15-alpacas-to-fly-past-earth-on-monday-nasa/ar-AA1cHfy5

I'm not a New Yorker, but it looks to me like the Brooklyn Bridge should be able to fit more than 15 alpacas.

NASA: Asteroid the size of the Brooklyn Bridge to pass near Earth on Thursday

At 1,600 feet long, the asteroid 2020 DB5, which will pass Earth on Thursday, is the largest of the next five asteroids approaching our planet.

USA TODAY