Asteroid 2018 NW has a diameter of around 16 meters, which is around as much as 100 hot dogs. But hold onto your buns because it isn't going to hit us – though it may fly close.
A absurd grump for an absurd headline: What toasts my buns about this article is that it uses hot dogs as a unit of “size” when it really means length. The asteroid is actually the size of millions of hotdogs, because asteroids and hotdogs are both three-dimensional.
I actually first assumed that they meant three dimensional volume when I read “size” and wondered how we saw such a tiny comet. Quite confusing (read: bad) choice of title…
A absurd grump for an absurd headline: What toasts my buns about this article is that it uses hot dogs as a unit of “size” when it really means length. The asteroid is actually the size of millions of hotdogs, because asteroids and hotdogs are both three-dimensional.
I actually first assumed that they meant three dimensional volume when I read “size” and wondered how we saw such a tiny comet. Quite confusing (read: bad) choice of title…