Quote Originally Posted by IntheGroove View Post
Asteroid bigger than the Statue of Liberty will fly past Earth on Christmas Day, NASA says...
This article...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/mass...arth-1.5244153

says in its very first sentence...

"TORONTO -- A massive asteroid that may be bigger than the length of two football fields is set to fly past Earth on Christmas Day, according to NASA."

so fortunately we need not convert odd dimensions like Statues-of-Liberty into the universal standard of football fields. I can't express how reassuring that is :-) Even the folks in the great white North measure in football fields.