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DoucheAsaurus@kbin.social to Science@kbin.social · 2 years ago

Colossal asteroid the size of 99 narwhals to pass Earth Thursday - NASA

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Colossal asteroid the size of 99 narwhals to pass Earth Thursday - NASA

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DoucheAsaurus@kbin.social to Science@kbin.social · 2 years ago
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Asteroid 2020 DB5 has no relation to the James Bond car the Aston Martin DB5, but this 850-meter asteroid is set to pass Earth soon, according to NASA.
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    99 narwhals? How many football fields is that? And bananas? If we stop using standard units I’m lost xD

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      The average weight of an adult male narwhal is 800 to 1,600 kg (1,760 to 3,530 lb)
      Using https://www.converttobananas.com/weight-converter/ that’s 7054 to 14109 bananas per narwhal…
      or 698,345 to 1,396,791 bananas for 99 of them

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        Thanks! At least something we can al understand!

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      @ivlarac pretty much just coming here to ask about units of measurement too… I think TheRegister has a converter…

      @DoucheAsaurus

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