NASA originally published that it was around 1000 pounds and two feet across. Then Jpost sensationalized it. A ball of iron that size would be about 1800 pounds.
True, quick math that's 4225x heavier than pure uranium, but still 666x lighter than neutron star soup. No material holds together at that density without a stars worth of gravity
heavy would imply weight wouldn't it? if they are all in orbit wouldn't 10,000 baby elephants weigh the same as 3, the same weight as a football field, or an Olympic sized swimming pool, and the same as a single can of Dr Pepper?
It could also imply mass which doesn't change regardless of gravity.
Also being in orbit doesn't significantly reduce the amount of gravity impacting the object. The reason astronauts feel weightless is because bring in orbit means they are moving fast enough to keep missing the object they are orbiting. So it isn't a lack of gravity, it is constant free fall.
Most people probably know how big a pop can is, and understand that even baby elephants are pretty heavy. It gets the point across better than "A meteor with a volume of approximately one third of a litre and a mass of approximately 350 kilograms".
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lol a material that dense and that small would just blow up
NASA originally published that it was around 1000 pounds and two feet across. Then Jpost sensationalized it. A ball of iron that size would be about 1800 pounds.
https://www.jpost.com/science/article-732223
True, quick math that's 4225x heavier than pure uranium, but still 666x lighter than neutron star soup. No material holds together at that density without a stars worth of gravity
Sorry, I’m having trouble understanding. Could you express that in approximate number of cans of Dr. Pepper?
you need the gravity of a star like Taylor Swift to hold a mass as small as Marco Rubio but as dense as R.F. Kennedy Jr.
It's the size of a dr. Pepper and the weight of 3 baby elephants.
It's also the size of a baby elephant foot and the weight of 728 cans of dr. Pepper.
Metric fuckton
Small can syndrome
heavy would imply weight wouldn't it? if they are all in orbit wouldn't 10,000 baby elephants weigh the same as 3, the same weight as a football field, or an Olympic sized swimming pool, and the same as a single can of Dr Pepper?
It could also imply mass which doesn't change regardless of gravity.
Also being in orbit doesn't significantly reduce the amount of gravity impacting the object. The reason astronauts feel weightless is because bring in orbit means they are moving fast enough to keep missing the object they are orbiting. So it isn't a lack of gravity, it is constant free fall.
I'm confused.
Not from the mass or size.
But from exactly what it is doing to Mars?
I use metric to hold papers down on my desk.
If I have 10 papers, I add another metric.
Most people probably know how big a pop can is, and understand that even baby elephants are pretty heavy. It gets the point across better than "A meteor with a volume of approximately one third of a litre and a mass of approximately 350 kilograms".
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It's not "Meteor the size of a Dr Pepper" but "A meteor The size of Dr Pepper" as in the whole company.