Asteroid 2018 NW has a diameter of around 16 meters, which is around as much as 100 hot dogs. But hold onto your buns because it isn't going to hit us – though it may fly close.
I think it came from the headlines in a few articles that would say things like an asteroid the size of a car… and an asteroid the size of an elephant and two giraffes.
I think after a while it became an accepted meme to just report the size of the asteroid by comparing it to something random instead of just posting the metric size.
Is this going to be the Beehaw version of “banana for scale”?
This was a thing on Reddit as well.
I think it came from the headlines in a few articles that would say things like an asteroid the size of a car… and an asteroid the size of an elephant and two giraffes.
I think after a while it became an accepted meme to just report the size of the asteroid by comparing it to something random instead of just posting the metric size.