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Devac  ·  401 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Corgi-sized meteor as heavy as 4 baby elephants hit Texas - NASA

To put that in perspective: Chelyabinsk meteor was the size of a ball 30-corgi wide and weighing in excess 78000 baby elephants, moving remarkable 2100 times faster than an African swallow.

    A corgi-sized meteor weighing as much as 4 baby elephants reads as metals to me.

It gets better. If that corgi-sized meteor was the size of Earth, its electrons would have 60 nanometre radiuses!





kleinbl00  ·  401 days ago  ·  link  ·  

lol

60cm in diameter by 454kg puts it at a density of 4g/cm^3, or about half that of iron's.

You knew that, of course but some of us need to struggle through our decoder rings...

Devac  ·  401 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yup, and that's a pretty standard density for meteorites. Depending on error bars on that corgi, it could be a chunkier/less porous type of chondrite (very common), but that's about all I'd be willing to put forward. Enstatites are less dense (3.5-ish), iron-bearing composites are denser (4.5-ish), and that's about the extent of my geological knowledge.

user-inactivated  ·  398 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Chelyabinsk meteor was the size of a ball 30-corgi wide

Ran out of credits before Dall-E gave me anything less heinous than this.