[Rockhounds] The "nine-banded armadillo", a new astronomical unit of measurement :-)

[Tim Fisher]

We had fun on a Facebook fossil group with the weird analogies they used for
one of the articles linked to. It was something like 10 alligators. The
consensus was that they should have used upper Nile crocodiles, because the
lower Nile crocs were too big LOL

Tim Fisher
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Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2023 4:48 PM
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Subject: [Rockhounds] The "nine-banded armadillo", a new astronomical unit
of measurement :-)

I found the use of a nine-banded armadillo as a unit of length a bit strange
in the below article.

Asteroid the size of 33 armadillos to pass Earth Sunday - NASA Asteroid 2023
FL2 is 35 meters, which is as much as almost 33 nine-banded armadillos lined
up tail-to-snout. However, it won't hit us, and armadillos might even be
more dangerous.
Aaron Reich, Jerusalem Post, March 26, 2023
https://www.jpost.com/science/article-735473

I have to wonder how many armadillos would represent an extinction-level
event?

In another article, asteroid 2023 CX1, in said to be twice the size of a
super bowl trophy. https://www.jpost.com/science/article-731426 .

A corgi and baby elephants are used yet another article,
https://www.jpost.com/science/article-732223
and camels used in yet another article,
https://www.jpost.com/science/article-733651

Are raurakl uesd in Australia to measure the size of asteroids?

I guess reporters are getting bored with the metric system.

Yours,

Paul H.


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