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For a moment I thought "~5 m" meant that it was going to be around 1/3 of the "15 m" asteroid that hit earth and caused dinosaurs to go extinct.
by ashleyw 18y ago
For a moment I thought "~5 m" meant that it was going to be around 1/3 of the "15 m" asteroid that hit earth and caused dinosaurs to go extinct.
- tlrobinson 18y agoExplain, for us astronomically-challenged, please?
- jbyers 18y agoThis little asteroid will be 5 m(eters) in diameter, quite a lot less than 15 m(iles) in diameter. :) Note that if we're talking about the asteroid that created the Chicxulub crater, most references seem to have the size a bit smaller, ~6 miles in diameter. Still, that's a big rock.
- eru 18y agoRemember the story about the NASA-engineers who mixed up imperial and metric units?
- marvin 18y ago...and fueled the Space Shuttle up with 900000 grams of liquid oxygen?
- rkowalick 18y agoThe US doesn't use imperial units.
- eru 18y agoSorry. I meant to reference the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter (http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/unit-mixups.html#mco http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/unit-mixups.html#mco).