Asteroid the size of 8 Taylor Swifts to pass Earth Tuesday - NASA

[Beastly Boy]

An asteroid the size of around eight Taylor Swifts is set to pass the Earth on Tuesday, February 6, according to NASA’s asteroid tracker.The asteroid in question has been designated as 2024 BT3, according to the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

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Swift’s height is a matter of fierce debate among many Swifties, with some even doing detailed breakdowns of pictures of the “Shake it Off” sensation to try to deduce just how tall she really is.

What is known is that Taylor Swift is certainly taller than average. In a 2008 profile in Entertainment Weeklyit was stated that she was 5 foot 11, while in a 2012 interview with Vanity Fairshe said she was 5 foot 10. But for the sake of this article, we will overlook any possible “Blank Space” or the assumption that perhaps “Everything Has Changed” with her height and go with a height of 5 foot 11.

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With this calculation in mind, asteroid 2024 BT3 is around the size of eight Taylor Swifts all stacked on top of one another. Unless they were wearing high heels, in which case this math gets a lot more complicated and we risk breaking the Internet.

https://euro.dayfr.com/local/1684622.html

And it's less than a 1/5th Scaramucci's away from Earth.

Scary.

[EX500rider]

1. So how many Richard Hammonds is that?

[ms liberty]

2. I need that translated into bananas or giraffes, please.

[highplainsdem]

7. She might've been called a giraffe when young.

Very tall girls often get called names like that when young (ditto), especially when taller than all or most of the boys in their grade, and girls usually reach their full height earlier than boys. I've read that she didn't like being very tall when young (again, ditto), but then gained enough confidence she could wear high heels and sometimes enjoy being the tallest person in the room. (Good for her.)

[dutch777]

3. Can we paint Taylor's face on it and have it orbit above the Super Bowl for awhile ??!?!?!

Pretty please! And then it can flip over at half time and have Biden's face on the other side.

[cannabis_flower]

11. And then maybe

Go over to Mar-A-Largo or wherever TFG is just to bother him.

[dutch777]

19. From your keyboard to God's ear. Works for me!

[UTUSN]

4. *HAH*!

[tazkcmo]

5. Hilarious.

I love NASA.

[sheshe2]

6. 😆😆😆😆

[Qutzupalotl]

8. Woman is the measure of all things.

[RussellCattle]

10. Qutz - Thank you for elevating this this discussion even higher.

[twodogsbarking]

9. Or one-half of #45

[dobleremolque]

12. My first LOL of the day! Thanks! n/t

[mitch96]

13. "size of around eight Taylor Swifts "..Ahhh a new obscure unit of measure...Like furlongs per fortnight...nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. I suspect credit should go to Aaron Reich of the Jerusalem Post - he's done these before

see eg 22 tuna fish

https://www.jpost.com/science/space/article-785118

"Julia" from dayFREuro looks like a screen-scraper. Aaron has a link to his "two ducks" asteroid on Jan 22nd.

[Beastly Boy]

16. Your suspicions are well founded.

I came across both sources of the story. It is the slight difference in the timing of each source publishing the story that made me cite Freurope.

But now that you had attributed the genre to Aaron Reich, he does appear to deserve the credit.

[Torchlight]

15. As a unit of measure, easier than Imperial, but tougher than metric.

Either way, if she's triggereing the right wing, then I'll happily drive a few hundred Taylors to the office tomorrow in silent gratitude.

[Cha]

17. 💥💫☄️✨🌟🌎🎶🎼🎵😊

🕯️🕊️💙🌊🇺🇸🍀

[ProfessorGAC]

18. Pretty Funny

The NASA PR folks obviously have a sense of humor.
This:

...in which case this math gets a lot more complicated and we risk breaking the Internet.

[yellowcanine]

20. That is about 500 Trump little hands then.