Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
Nice combination of precision and highly varying size. Also makes use of the media trope of impending doom from above, while fabricating a measurement unit that combines both the cause and victim of a prehistoric extinction event. Original article: https://www.jpost.com/science/article-714778
Holy **** that article is bad. At first glance I incorrectly interpreted the headline as 2.3x the size of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs (which I'm sure was the intention). Nope, it's 2.3x the size of "a dinosaur." A tiny little jumpy dinosaur or one of the big mofos? Meaningless. Could be anything. So apparently the asteroid is 51m in diameter. That's actually a decent sized chunk. Why didn't they just say that in the headline?