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Devac · 660 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. It gets better. If that corgi-sized meteor was the size of Earth, its electrons would have 60 nanometre radiuses!A corgi-sized meteor weighing as much as 4 baby elephants reads as metals to me.
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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.
