EVERYBODY GET INDOORS

Newly discovered asteroid larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza will zoom between Earth and the moon on Saturday

Giant asteroid the size of 770 lions to pass Earth Thursday, June 27

Asteroid the size of 258 UEFA Euros trophies to pass Earth in close flyby

(Thanks to pharmaross and Steve K)

Comments

[MOTW, asking for a friend]

Are those African or Indian lions?
What the heck is UEFA Euros and why do they have a trophy? Have they even awarded 258 trophies?

[kwerty]

Am I the only one who assumes they're not going to tell us about the one that's going to smack the bejeebers out of us? Like if you visit the NASA homepage there is just a loop of the Looney Tunes closing sequence, "That's all, folks!" I suppose ignorance is bliss.

[Burt Macklin, FBI]

Still waiting for an asteroid the size of seven thousand Macedonians in full battle array.

[Siegfried's ghost]

Is that to the base of the lion's tail or the tip of the tail?

[cfjk]

Are they implying that the size of this asteroid has reached a new plateau?

[wanderer2575]

I think someone, somewhere, has put together a listing of possible measurement units and the astronomers just take the next one from the list when they need it. Same way the meteorologists name hurricanes.

[man tom]

When 700 Lions are preempted before arriving in full force on earth. This is real people.

*70 of the lions were directed off course and unavailableby this.

*you are reading about an asteroid described by it's size approximated by a number of lions and you call me silly?

[Jim Petty]

So one will pass 2/3 of the distance of the moon, another 3/4 of the distance, and the third 17 times the distance. We might be entering into the boy who cried wolf territory here. When the closest is over 133 times the distance of communication's satellites, No one should be worried.

[Jim Petty]

*13 times the distance.

I'm losing the battle between my fat fingers and my new keyboard

[keith in tampa]

I really thought we had all settled on giraffes as the standard measurement
we need to petition the bureau of weights and measurements