So NASA’s found yet another asteroid that has a miniscule chance (0.18%) of hitting the Earth (in 2046), and, well, this was the picture of it they chose:
Fucking look at that. It’s got a face! And it’s screaming! And who could blame it for screaming when it knows it’ll take another 23 years to pose a challenge to the Earth and not even 0.2 of a likelihood of hitting us? I’d be furious too if I were 2023DW…
Anyway, once I saw this story I had to head to the Jerusalem Post to see if Aaron Reich had posted a size comparison, and was not disappointed:
Oh YES. Aaron Reich is the JPost’s science writer, and he seems to have a particular fondness for stories of objects from space hitting, or not hitting, the Earth with bizarre descriptions of their size… his headlines were pretty straight at first, but in the last few months they’ve been getting increasingly odd for some reason; it feels like he’s having some sort of abstract dig at Americans’ refusal to accept the metric system, but I don’t know. This one is not quite as good as “Corgi-sized meteor as heavy as 4 baby elephants hit Texas“, but few things are…
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