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Asteroid the size of 18 platypus to fly closer to Earth than Moon - NASA
2023-03-31

Platypi?
Are there more because NASA is looking,
or are there more incursions?
Posted by:Skidmark

#10  Or how about 1/8 CheshireMammoth?
Posted by: Sonny Ebbuling4332   2023-03-31 22:58  

#9  I reckon I'm starting to like
This kid from the Post, Mr. Reich,
Who takes so much pleasure
In spending my leisure
And measures 1 world record pike.
Plus or minus a pickerel or so.
Posted by: Sonny Ebbuling4332   2023-03-31 22:52  

#8  I am under the impression the platypus is a smallish kind of a proto-mammalian animal that lives in dens dug into the banks of the small streams in Australia in which it hunts even smaller creatures. But exactly how big the thing is, I couldn’t say without looking it up, nor whether Australia is actually where it is to be found... or even if proto-mammal is an actual term or just something I made up.

Quite possibly this is not a useful measure of size.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-03-31 18:16  

#7  ^ Heh
Posted by: Frank G   2023-03-31 13:47  

#6  A laden or unladen platypus?
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-03-31 12:24  

#5  #2 "How many jellybeans in this jar asteroid?"
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-03-31 10:37  

#4  Is it weighing in at nineteen stone?
Posted by: Raj   2023-03-31 10:23  

#3  and please calculate the speed of the asteroid in furlongs/fortnight.
Posted by: Warthog   2023-03-31 09:53  

#2  Americans will use anything to avoid the metric system.

And I want the size of it in gumballs.
Posted by: DarthVader   2023-03-31 09:03  

#1  This is what you get when you tell engineers to be more 'inclusive'.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-03-31 08:13  

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