Image Thread 26

[Bob Schroeck]

Just four baby elephants? It's a shame that they were snuffed out before finding a baby turtle to ride on. All that lost potential for stories...

<sigh> As usual, never trust a meme pic. NASA never said that. The Jerusalem Post did, apparently to translate NASA's arcane and unfamiliar metric units into terms their readers could grasp:

According to experts from NASA's Johnson Space Center, the meteor in question was just over 60 centimeters in diameter and weighed half a ton (or around 454 kilograms).
To put that in context, a baby elephant could weigh as much as 113 kilograms, according to experts from the Denver Zoo. This means that despite its diameter only being around the length of average Pembroke Welsh Corgi, the meteor still weighed as much as four baby elephants.

Still, even with correct attribution it makes for a good entry on All The Tropes' "Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure" page.