Well, our object collision budget's a million dollars; that allows us to track about 3 percent of the sky, and beg'n your pardon, sir, but it's a big-ass sky
Haha. Exactly.
We had a gearbox strip out at work and take our production line down so we were all there after hours trying to switch it out. Probably around midnight one of our techs - named Rodney and definitely a guy who burned his brain up with recreational drugs a long time ago - started wailing on it yelling “This is how we fix things on the Russian SPACE STATION”.
A much appreciated laugh considering I’m salary and wasn’t getting paid.
I don’t know. Maybe if you got the best guy in the biz - Harry Stamper - to do it. It’s an art and he’s third generation but still doesn’t have it all figured out.
Because there are a ton of blindspots since you can only place ground telescopes in limited places due to all the requirements and then there is the issue of the sun. We need more space based telescopes
Asteroids and meteors also suck at reflecting light. It’s like looking for tiny pebbles speeding at you in a pitch-black Amazon warehouse using only your phone’s flash light.
Well not really, if you wanted to put up payloads as good as James Webb that would cost a lot, but it would be a lot less than the first one as it bore 100% if it's development cost.
If you only wanted something as good as hubble then you could with today's technology do something much cheaper and the launch would cost more than the payload.
If it’s the size of the great pyramid, but would habe destroyed a city if it hit near or above one. When the warning eventually comes that people must leave a city within a few days for this reason, I wonder how many will take the science seriously.
Who is this “we” you mean? I will be leaving, because I know that astronomy is not a left wing plot to steal your freedom. If people want to join the latest Twitter conspiracy group and stay, that’s fine.
Yes, the rational minded of us understand that. but the proliferation of nonsense that social media spreads and the surprising % of people who believe it, will affect us all.
But of course, the GOP refuses to provide the funds to build the space based telescopes we need to identify the threat. Don't worry their prayers will save us from the next asteroid that enters the atmosphere 🙄
Not going to argue against vastly increasing funding to science, but even if we had a million telescopes I’m not sure how that’s going to save us from an asteroid that’s going to hit us.
If we spot it soon enough, we can launch a spaceship at it to do things like use gravity to very gently nudge it to a non-earth-impacting course or, as the DART mission showed, do the nudging by slamming the heck into it and blasting several tons of rubble into space!
There are so much space junk in our orbit its getting hard for us to see these things, Also those damn star link satellites also don't help.
Its pretty big but not as bad as the one thats coming back around in 2035.. That one would fucking destroy everything.
ChatGPT:
To estimate how many Kia Sorentos would fit in the Great Pyramid of Giza, we need to compare the volumes of the two.
1. **Volume of the Great Pyramid of Giza**:
- The Great Pyramid of Giza (Khufu's Pyramid) has a base length of about 230.4 meters (756 feet) on each side and a height of about 146.6 meters (481 feet).
- The volume of a pyramid is given by the formula:
\[
V = \frac{1}{3} \times \text{Base Area} \times \text{Height}
\]
- The base area is \( 230.4 \, \text{m} \times 230.4 \, \text{m} \).
\[
\text{Base Area} = 230.4 \times 230.4 = 53,094.56 \, \text{m}^2
\]
- So the volume is:
\[
V = \frac{1}{3} \times 53,094.56 \, \text{m}^2 \times 146.6 \, \text{m} = 2,593,309.21 \, \text{m}^3
\]
2. **Volume of a Kia Sorento**:
- A Kia Sorento has approximate dimensions of 4.8 meters in length, 1.9 meters in width, and 1.7 meters in height.
- The volume of a rectangular box (approximation for the car) is:
\[
V = \text{Length} \times \text{Width} \times \text{Height}
\]
\[
V = 4.8 \, \text{m} \times 1.9 \, \text{m} \times 1.7 \, \text{m} = 15.456 \, \text{m}^3
\]
3. **Number of Kia Sorentos that would fit**:
- To find how many Kia Sorentos fit in the pyramid, we divide the volume of the pyramid by the volume of one Kia Sorento:
\[
\text{Number of Kia Sorentos} = \frac{2,593,309.21 \, \text{m}^3}{15.456 \, \text{m}^3} \approx 167,764
\]
So, approximately 167,764 Kia Sorentos would fit inside the Great Pyramid of Giza.
But should we be considering the *volume* of Kia Sorentos, or the *mass* of Kia Sorentos? If we compressed the Sorentos down, we could fit more in the pyramid, but would the mass of the compressed Kia Sorentoes be more that the mass of the pyramid?
And is the asteroid just the volume of the pyramids, or the density of the pyramids as well? This is important to know so that we can compute the correct number of Kia Sorentos.
[It's 258 UEFA Euros sized trophies.](https://www.jpost.com/science/space/article-808148)
> Asteroid 2024 MK is around 154.9 meters wide, around the size of 258 Henri Delaunay trophies won during UEFA European Football Championships (Euros). And it's flying very close to Earth.
They’re actually pretty close. Off by about 10 yards one way, and 10-20 yards the other. Also, interestingly, we both measure them in yards… why do y’all do that?
What they don’t say is if anyone on earth will be able to see it. Saturday when? What country’s Saturday? I’m in USA, Midwest. Will I see it? Saturday day? Saturday night? 🙄
I was curious too, this is what I found googling
>You may be able to see the asteroid sometime Saturday with a telescope or a pair of strong binoculars, Smithsonian Magazine says. Those in Hawaii and South America have the best viewing opportunities. It might also be seen from the southern continental U.S. The asteroid's closest approach was at 9:46 a.m.
"Well Sir it is a big ass sky!!"
Also there is a 99.99999% the government would literally tell us right around this time if a real astroid was actually going to hit Earth. Seriously first obviously there is nothing anyone could do & second people can't handle information very well.
Sure, but the odds are so incredibly tiny that our tax dollars can go to better things at the moment. We have unhoused and sick people dying of hunger, and something like this is statistically far less likely than 2 grains of sand colliding in an empty stadium.
That's a not technical way to put it, but yeah, you've got the basic idea. Generally speaking, something would have to have an almost direct collision course with us or have a very very slow relative speed to ultimately hit the earth.
I am not science-y, at all, but that was my first thought.
I doubt it would get 'caught' in our gravity to the point where it hits the earth. But since the moon being out there affects tides on earth, I wonder if a big object like that would cause any disruption in that. Or maybe big is not that big compared to the moon/earth.
For reference a 146m asteroid hits the earth every couple thousand years. It would be really bad if it hit a populated area - could easily level a medium sized city - but far from civilization ending. And it would probably hit the ocean anyway.
All the telescopes and LEOs sitting around can’t be turned into a mesh network?
I grew up with SETI@Home so I’d darn sure sign up for an asteroid monitoring program… 👍🏽
Pretty interesting that they only discovered it 2 weeks ago despite it getting so close, I guess that's because it's small as far as asteroids go.
Well, our object collision budget's a million dollars; that allows us to track about 3 percent of the sky, and beg'n your pardon, sir, but it's a big-ass sky
American components, Russian components, all made in Taiwan!
Haha. Exactly. We had a gearbox strip out at work and take our production line down so we were all there after hours trying to switch it out. Probably around midnight one of our techs - named Rodney and definitely a guy who burned his brain up with recreational drugs a long time ago - started wailing on it yelling “This is how we fix things on the Russian SPACE STATION”. A much appreciated laugh considering I’m salary and wasn’t getting paid.
That movie is still fun to watch every now and then.
Would 35 or 40 million allow us to cover all the sky?
I don’t know. Maybe if you got the best guy in the biz - Harry Stamper - to do it. It’s an art and he’s third generation but still doesn’t have it all figured out.
It's an old ref but it check out... loll
Hi Billy Bob.
Because there are a ton of blindspots since you can only place ground telescopes in limited places due to all the requirements and then there is the issue of the sun. We need more space based telescopes
Asteroids and meteors also suck at reflecting light. It’s like looking for tiny pebbles speeding at you in a pitch-black Amazon warehouse using only your phone’s flash light.
If those pebbles were speeding super fast and painful, then I would watch that game show.
america, anything for entertainment... anything but the metric system
[Like this?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrGdr537jCw)
25 years and $10B a piece. It’s just kinda what it takes it seems.
Well not really, if you wanted to put up payloads as good as James Webb that would cost a lot, but it would be a lot less than the first one as it bore 100% if it's development cost. If you only wanted something as good as hubble then you could with today's technology do something much cheaper and the launch would cost more than the payload.
Perfectly stated
they should put telescopes on the moon.
If it’s the size of the great pyramid, but would habe destroyed a city if it hit near or above one. When the warning eventually comes that people must leave a city within a few days for this reason, I wonder how many will take the science seriously.
it'll be called a conspiracy and spread as such on social media.. we're fucked!
Who is this “we” you mean? I will be leaving, because I know that astronomy is not a left wing plot to steal your freedom. If people want to join the latest Twitter conspiracy group and stay, that’s fine.
Yes, the rational minded of us understand that. but the proliferation of nonsense that social media spreads and the surprising % of people who believe it, will affect us all.
But of course, the GOP refuses to provide the funds to build the space based telescopes we need to identify the threat. Don't worry their prayers will save us from the next asteroid that enters the atmosphere 🙄
plot twist, their prayers are for the asteroid to hit the earth because it's a death cult.
You would think so sometimes 🙄
Not going to argue against vastly increasing funding to science, but even if we had a million telescopes I’m not sure how that’s going to save us from an asteroid that’s going to hit us.
It's the warning that triggers the defensive response
If we spot it soon enough, we can launch a spaceship at it to do things like use gravity to very gently nudge it to a non-earth-impacting course or, as the DART mission showed, do the nudging by slamming the heck into it and blasting several tons of rubble into space!
A lot of tracking capability was lost when the Arecebo Observatory collapsed.
There are so much space junk in our orbit its getting hard for us to see these things, Also those damn star link satellites also don't help. Its pretty big but not as bad as the one thats coming back around in 2035.. That one would fucking destroy everything.
That's not really true, the majority of telescopes that are impacted by the likes of starlink and spacejunk aren't likely to ever detect an asteroid.
Where do you come up with your conclusions?
Randomly, I pulled it from my ass of course.
A good honest man 🫡
that would be a lie i told
This is not true and not fact based. Space junk is easily tracked in orbit and orbit is really huge. Plenty of room for searching the sky.
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You have to make the conversion from elephants first, then to kais.
But only after you have converted from bananas
I always forget. How many bananas in an Olympic size swimming pool?
I’m gonna have to check my math with a dollar store kiddie pool to get that
AI bot should had jumped in by now to answer the question. Lazy bot.
Bot is actually a banana
22.7 million, assuming you only use average sized bananas (110 cm^3) and a 2.5 million L pool.
Are you a bot? You legally have to tell me if I ask, same as police when I’m selling….
eat shit spez you racist hypocrite
The Fox is in the Hen house damnit, you truly are a bot lol
01110110 01100101 01110010 01111001 00100000 01100110 01110101 01101110 01101110 01111001
I am not a bot. I remember being a child. I remember a little wooden unicorn. I loved that unicorn. I cried when I lost it.
How many football fields is that, for the americans in the chat?
I’m in the South so I also need it converted to Mud holes or HEMI amount.
It’s a little over three point five million foot-pound.
My mind went instantly to wondering how many halves of a giraffe that would be.
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You’d think so, but you might be surprised
I’m never surprised. If anything even attempted to go over my head I would catch it.
If it was a giraffe you could ride it off into the sunset
Or I could grab the asteroid going over my head and ride it over the sunset. It is at least the size of one Kia Sorrento, I hear.
Front half or back half?
Cut down the midline, duh.
It’s 12 million half giraffes by mass, so roughly 3,162,888.77174486 Sorrentos (2022). Roughly.
Okay how many bananas would that be?
Only about 54000000000.
Approximately 163,636 Sorrentos
A kia sorento is 1.9 meters wide, the asteroid is 149 meters. So there's about 78.42 kia sorento, or 78,42 if you'r in the EU.
ChatGPT: To estimate how many Kia Sorentos would fit in the Great Pyramid of Giza, we need to compare the volumes of the two. 1. **Volume of the Great Pyramid of Giza**: - The Great Pyramid of Giza (Khufu's Pyramid) has a base length of about 230.4 meters (756 feet) on each side and a height of about 146.6 meters (481 feet). - The volume of a pyramid is given by the formula: \[ V = \frac{1}{3} \times \text{Base Area} \times \text{Height} \] - The base area is \( 230.4 \, \text{m} \times 230.4 \, \text{m} \). \[ \text{Base Area} = 230.4 \times 230.4 = 53,094.56 \, \text{m}^2 \] - So the volume is: \[ V = \frac{1}{3} \times 53,094.56 \, \text{m}^2 \times 146.6 \, \text{m} = 2,593,309.21 \, \text{m}^3 \] 2. **Volume of a Kia Sorento**: - A Kia Sorento has approximate dimensions of 4.8 meters in length, 1.9 meters in width, and 1.7 meters in height. - The volume of a rectangular box (approximation for the car) is: \[ V = \text{Length} \times \text{Width} \times \text{Height} \] \[ V = 4.8 \, \text{m} \times 1.9 \, \text{m} \times 1.7 \, \text{m} = 15.456 \, \text{m}^3 \] 3. **Number of Kia Sorentos that would fit**: - To find how many Kia Sorentos fit in the pyramid, we divide the volume of the pyramid by the volume of one Kia Sorento: \[ \text{Number of Kia Sorentos} = \frac{2,593,309.21 \, \text{m}^3}{15.456 \, \text{m}^3} \approx 167,764 \] So, approximately 167,764 Kia Sorentos would fit inside the Great Pyramid of Giza.
But should we be considering the *volume* of Kia Sorentos, or the *mass* of Kia Sorentos? If we compressed the Sorentos down, we could fit more in the pyramid, but would the mass of the compressed Kia Sorentoes be more that the mass of the pyramid? And is the asteroid just the volume of the pyramids, or the density of the pyramids as well? This is important to know so that we can compute the correct number of Kia Sorentos.
[It's 258 UEFA Euros sized trophies.](https://www.jpost.com/science/space/article-808148) > Asteroid 2024 MK is around 154.9 meters wide, around the size of 258 Henri Delaunay trophies won during UEFA European Football Championships (Euros). And it's flying very close to Earth.
how many Delawares is this?
Sorry the only relative measurement units I know are Libraries of Congress, Olympic-sized swimming pools, and football fields.
"banana for scale."
And in the UK, "an area the size of Wales". :)
When they say that are they talking about the big Wales or the smaller, like dolphin size wales.
I’d be more terrified of Wales sized whales.
How many statue of liberties long would that be ?
American or European football fields?
They’re actually pretty close. Off by about 10 yards one way, and 10-20 yards the other. Also, interestingly, we both measure them in yards… why do y’all do that?
Has anybody checked up on the Great Pyramid of Giza lately? It's still there, right?
Last I saw Carman Sandiego had it
Where?
In the world…
Wasn’t it stolen by Vector?
Nah, the pyramids got toasted by Godzilla. He suplexed King Kong off the big one. Worth it.
Don’t look up!
If only that movie had predicted we’d be asking for it at this point
What they don’t say is if anyone on earth will be able to see it. Saturday when? What country’s Saturday? I’m in USA, Midwest. Will I see it? Saturday day? Saturday night? 🙄
I was curious too, this is what I found googling >You may be able to see the asteroid sometime Saturday with a telescope or a pair of strong binoculars, Smithsonian Magazine says. Those in Hawaii and South America have the best viewing opportunities. It might also be seen from the southern continental U.S. The asteroid's closest approach was at 9:46 a.m.
Dammit, I missed it.😮💨 Southern USA
"Between the earth and moon" is still a CRAZY amount of distance, and it's big, but not THAT big
But the moon is right there how far can that be
At LEAST 4 miles
Can the Gaza pyramid fit in 4 miles? Impossible to say
It’s just basic algebra at this point
Have they traced it back to Klendathu?
Would you like to know more?
I'm from Buenos Aires and I say KILL EM ALL
WITH ME, SOLDIER!
Cubits vs meters, great.
It’s the Goa’Uld! Warm up the Stargate!! CALL O’NEAL AND HAMMOND!
It's O'Neill. TWO L'S!
I am ashamed…
I hope it hits earth
Which pyramid? Banana for scale?
The great one, it’s just down from the meh pyramid and the pretty good pyramid. If you see the crappy pyramid you’ve gone too far
Yea but how many Giraffes is it?
Personally, I’m ready for an asteroid strike.
Dear God: Please let it hit the planet.
Vote for Giant Meteor '24
"Well Sir it is a big ass sky!!" Also there is a 99.99999% the government would literally tell us right around this time if a real astroid was actually going to hit Earth. Seriously first obviously there is nothing anyone could do & second people can't handle information very well.
If we invest our tax dollars into more detection systems when we find one early enough we could try to alter its trajectory.
The detection system needs to be early enough to have time to train oil drillers to become astronauts
To make sure it hits us, right?
Sure, but the odds are so incredibly tiny that our tax dollars can go to better things at the moment. We have unhoused and sick people dying of hunger, and something like this is statistically far less likely than 2 grains of sand colliding in an empty stadium.
Please let it just hit us
🔮 The asteroid hits and State Farm denies insurance claims since “asteroid collision insurance” was not paid for
Isn’t that like, pretty fucking close on a cosmic scale? If that thing hit it would be cataclysmic
Yeah, extremely close.
Come on asteroid, change your trajectory by just a few degrees and put the human race out of its misery
Wow that's very close, is it going so fast that it won't be caught by earth's gravity?
That's a not technical way to put it, but yeah, you've got the basic idea. Generally speaking, something would have to have an almost direct collision course with us or have a very very slow relative speed to ultimately hit the earth.
I am not science-y, at all, but that was my first thought. I doubt it would get 'caught' in our gravity to the point where it hits the earth. But since the moon being out there affects tides on earth, I wonder if a big object like that would cause any disruption in that. Or maybe big is not that big compared to the moon/earth.
It would have magnitudes less effect on the tides than the actual pyramids on earth do, so no, it won't affect anything
How many Chichen Itza Mayan pyramids? That’s the only pyramid I’ve seen in my life.
Don't look up
One of my favorite unspoken jokes is the absurdity of the units of measurement used in article headlines about asteroids
That's pretty funny, a comedy bit ready to happen. "Yeah idk, the thing is the size of kinda like 4.5 statue of liberties"
When you're in New Zealand and it's already Sunday when you read see this so assume everything is fine.
Please hit me
Uh, that seems worrying. Just to be clear. If it was going to hit us, we only found it 2 WEEKS AGO. We would all be dead.
Just a little to the left….
How many football fields is that?
Why can't it just hit earth please
What’s it shaped like….?
Wow. What a shitty website.
Just hit us already. Please?
Moscow, Moscow...
We’re not that lucky
It's more than welcome to collide, if it would like to.
Nasa must be doing a really shit job if this thing is so big, and they only noticed it now
Is it going to be visible to the naked eye?
Avi Loeb claiming it’s aliens?
Am I just supposed to convert the number of elephants that would fit on my own??
Any chance we’ll be able to see it?
What's with the arab unit of measurement? Give it to me in football stadiums please.
I prefer school buses as units of measurement!
How many spinxes would that be? I know that a sphinx is eight giraffes, or sixteen half giraffes.
What about stuffed giraffes?
Counts double
Wait…double a half giraffe, or double an eighth giraffe? Auuugghhhh
Double a half giraffe
Can you see it?
For reference a 146m asteroid hits the earth every couple thousand years. It would be really bad if it hit a populated area - could easily level a medium sized city - but far from civilization ending. And it would probably hit the ocean anyway.
Let me just block Live Science articles.
Gravity is weird. Someone explain why the earths gravity doesn’t capture this asteroid when it keeps the moon in orbit?
Velocity of asteroid
I need that broken down into bananas
So how many muskrats big would that be?
That's what, like 28 giraffes?
So what happens if it DID hit? What kind of damage are we looking at?
It could wipe out a large city.
Go check out a copy of “Lucifer’s Hammer”.
Imagine another invisible asteroid hits it and makes it smash into earth
Wasn’t this the intro to Thundarr the Barbarian?
How fast?
Maybe it will hit us
I recommend Preparation H. There nothing like it without a prescription for asteroids.
5million miles “close”
All the telescopes and LEOs sitting around can’t be turned into a mesh network? I grew up with SETI@Home so I’d darn sure sign up for an asteroid monitoring program… 👍🏽
Just take us out already
How many onions is that if stacked?
Oooo, land on Earth please
Like **Chelyabinsk meteor**? That didn't end well in Russia
Nothing ends well in Russia. "And then it got worse..." is the national motto.
I think this was already an episode of Stargate?
Can we not vector it towards Moscow?
Obviously, its composition would depend on how much made it through the atmosphere. How much damage could one this size do in a worst-case scenario?
The Tunguska meteor was about a third the size, and it caused a multi-megaton explosion
Welcome to Earth...
Any chance we could re-direct it to Mar-a-Lago?
If it were to hit the earth, how big would it be just before impact? I.e., how much burns of.
Anything to avoid metric, as usual.
Americans will use anything to measure things, except the metric system.