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I'd say that photo and a funny text works much better for warning drivers opposed to information about it's precise dimensions and weight.
For the most charitable reading, that could be a tongue-in-cheek response to someone calling in a large boulder blocking said highway. They arrive and find that the "large" boulder is actually not quite so large.
Of course there's a community for that
The added funny part is that the headline came from an article from a metric using country.
How would a "corgi-sized" meteor have a mass comparable to "four baby elephants"?
OK. Assuming the corgi is 60cm long, and assuming with "size" they think of "a sphere with a diameter of", we get a volume of 113000cm³. Depending on the weight of a baby elephant (90-120kg) we get 360 to 480 kilograms. Divided by the volume, we get a medium density between 3.1 and 4.2 g/cm³. According to Engineering Toolbox, this is about as dense as garnet or aluminium oxide, common types of stone.
If they took the height of the corgi (30cm) as a base of their spheres' diameter, the volume is down to ~14000cm³, leading to densities between 25.7 and 34.2 g/cm³. Now that would be interesting, because that would even surpass uranium (which has 19.something g/cm³).
So depending on how to interpret those measures, it'll be a ball of dirt, or a serious nuclear threat. That's why scientists use metric...
The article is even very specific about this. It's a Pembroke Welsh Corgi.
For the real numbers:
According to experts from NASA's Johnson Space Center, the meteor in question was just over 60 centimeters in diameter and weighed half a ton (or around 454 kilograms).
Looks like my estimate is within the parameters.
Uhm I mean God knows what they meant, but in this context I visualize this headline as a meteor with the VOLUME of a Corgi, definitely not a sphere with the diameter of the longest dimension of a Corgi, that doesn't make much sense to me.
A corgi has a mass of 10-14kg, so assuming a density of an average mammal of ~1g/cm³ would actually give it a volume of 14000cm³. See paragraph three for results. Not good.
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According to experts from NASA's Johnson Space Center, the meteor in question was just over 60 centimeters in diameter and weighed half a ton (or around 454 kilograms).
as heavy as four baby elephants
If they were on the back of a small tortoise, I believe that's 1 micro-Pratchett
I mean if you say corgi-sized asteroid I can instantly visualize it so that's good
Yeah but how heavy are 4 baby elephants? Is it more like one adult sized one or more like two?
As an American, I need this in F-150s. Base model, curb weight.
According to my research, a Ford F-150 is approx. one small adult elephant, or 20 baby elephants. A Fiat 500 is about the same weight as four baby elephants.
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i just did the math and that's something around ~~100,000kg/m^3^ to 200,000kg/m^3^~~ 400,000kg/m^3^ to 860,000kg/m^3^. The densest terrestrial material i could find was Osmium @ 22,610kg/m^3^. The surface of a neutron star is estimated at 1 billion kg/m3. Our star's core density is estimated to be 150,000kg/m^3^. The core of a brown dwarf can be between 10,000kg/m^3^ and 1,000,000kg/m^3^ So, uh.
edit: forgot there were four elephants
I didn't do the math and realized that was ridiculous density.
It's just an extra-large corgi, and some extra-light elephants.
so what like a keeshond or a swedish vallhund? and instead of elephants, rhinocerodes?
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What happened to hamburgers?!?
it's a K-shaped economy, we need them for eating not measuring
Well, there's a new term for me!
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They live and thrive.
The conversion rate from Hamburg to corgi was just too difficult. Teaching young students to start with the corgi method is practiced now.
To be fair giving measurements in metric to people who don't normally use it would be more worthless than "corgi sized".
Just a heads up, i think this was originally an Onion article headline, or from a similar publication.
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This website says this solid bronze corgi dimensions are Height 15" X Width 24" (38.1cm x 60.96) and weight 22lbs (9.979kg).
Reference corgi spotted.
With a can for scale. We just need another photo of a can next to a reference banana for full measurement traceability.
There is no way it is solid and only ~10 kg.
You might be right. I saw another bronze corgi, it was a planter with a semi-hallow center and it said 220lbs. So I'm in unfamiliar territory.
Or maybe this one got the order of magnitude wrong? Imagine showing up to pick up what you expected to comfortably carry on one hand and find something you'd need a cart to safely move without fucking up your back
The late Queen Elizabeth II had her corgis. Coincidence?
I like how the text underneath explains exactly what the viewer is intended to notice and laugh at. Thank god
Cue the laugh track!
If they’ve think corgis are that big, how enormous did they think Queen Elizabeth II was????
Size ≠ weight.
Meteors tend to be much heavier per cubic centimeter (or half-garlic if we're still avoiding metric) than short-legged dogs or geriatric monarchs.
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The meteor had a diameter of 60cm, a corgis height is listed as around 30cm (and they are about twice as long as they are high), so it roughly checks out.
looks at my corgi
sees it smoking a blunt, becoming longer and longer
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Gotta keep nurturing the idiocracy state
Murica!!
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