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NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour - NASA Science (science.nasa.gov)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Relative to what?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Reads as the sun, but it isn't explicit

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

400 kms^-1 or about 1mc

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

More digits: About 0.001491 c

Mighty fast for a macroscopic object.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Better not standing in its way. Luckily, it is sufficiently far away.

When I first read the headline, I was thnking: Coming here? How close?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh I would fly one million miles and I would fly one million more...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Just to be the man so far away

That I won’t hear that god damned song no more!

LA DA DA DA!!!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yo momma so ugly she scared away that asteroid?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s… impossible…

…ITS OVER NINE THOUSANDDDDDD