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Asteroid the size of 100 hot dogs to pass Earth on Monday - NASA(www.jpost.com)

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slartibartfast42@beehaw.org
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Obligatory “Americans will use everything but the metric system” joke aside, I wonder how astronomers can even discover an asteroid this small.

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knokelmaat@beehaw.org
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The “size” of 100 hot dogs is misleading. It is not a pile of 100 hot dogs to demonstrate the volume of the asteroid, but a line of 100 hot dogs to demonstrate the diameter, which is 16 meters. So in volume, this is a lot more than 100 hot dogs!

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slartibartfast42@beehaw.org
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Still not very big.

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Plus_a_Grain_of_Salt@beehaw.org
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You know, I think that’s a good thing, I don’t think I’d be excited for an enormous asteroid headed towards Earth.

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Lucien@beehaw.org
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And here I was thinking that it was 100 hotdogs lined up end-to-end. What a deceptive headline!

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