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

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.

  • at_an_angle@lemmy.oneEnglish
    221·
    1 year ago

    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.)

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
      91·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • ohitsbreadley@discuss.tchncs.de
        21·
        1 year ago

        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?

        • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
          11·
          1 year ago

          It’s 3 football fields plus 2 baseball fields plus 7 soccer fields plus 4 cricket fields plus 200 tennis courts.