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.

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    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.

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      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?

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        1 year ago

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