stopthatgirl7Oct 4, 2023

Giant asteroid the size of 1,000 capybaras to pass Earth Tuesday - NASA

While the asteroid is traveling too far to pose any risk to the Earth, a possible impact event with it could become a worldwide catastrophe.

https://www.jpost.com/science/space/article-761322

Giant asteroid the size of 1,000 capybaras to pass Earth Tuesday - NASA

Asteroid 349507 (2008 QY) is around 1.2 kilometers in diameter, or around 1,000 capybaras – large enough that an impact event (which won't happen now) could be a worldwide catastrophe.

The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
Show threadat_an_angleOct 5, 2023

One capybara weighs on average 108lbs or about 16.5 AR-15s fully loaded.

So the asteroid weighs roughly as much as 422,559 AR-15s with a loaded 20 rd magazine. (Warning my math is bad as I’m American.)

Show threadryathalOct 5, 2023
It looks like they are using the length of a capybara, which is just over a meter not the weight. So it’s 1,446 ar15s in diameter.
Show threadohitsbreadleyOct 5, 2023
But how many Olympic swimming pools is that? Or is that a unit of volume… sorry, I think I’m looking for the number of football fields, yes how many of those is it in diameter?
Show threadryathalOct 5, 2023
It’s 3 football fields plus 2 baseball fields plus 7 soccer fields plus 4 cricket fields plus 200 tennis courts.
Show threadDeiv
And that equals how many freedom units exactly?
Oct 5, 2023 at 2:41amWeb