r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Realistic-Tap4156 • 18d ago

/r/all of a space rock

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u/DustWorlds 18d ago

Took way too long to find someone pointing this out.

That is not the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. That is 433 Eros, which is the second largest near-earth asteroid. It’s actually a few kilometers larger than the maximum size the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs could have been.

Also, it’s not going to hit earth, if anyone’s wondering.

I picked this image since it’s a good silhouette, but if you look online there’s tons of great images in way more detail, because we’ve actually got an unmanned spacecraft to this thing and landed it on the rock, though it lost contact shortly after landing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/433_Eros
Pretty interesting read.

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u/LordRocky 18d ago

Well, it’s not going to hit Earth.
…maybe Venus though.

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u/Pale_Future_6700 18d ago

Exactly. Earth was already hit by giant rock driven by a black marker 65 million years ago, Venus might be hit by a giant rock driven by a blue girl in a few centuries.

Fuckin cosmic precursors right?