Reply to post: Re: That is damn close

Bad news. Asteroid 1999 KW4 flew by, did not hit Earth killing us all. Good news: Another one, Didymos, is on the way

Hans Neeson-Bumpsadese Silver badge

Re: That is damn close

Perhaps it would make more sense to say "5.2M kilometres"

Yes...to my mind "M" means mega and "m" means milli. 5.2 milli-kilometres would be 5.2 metres. Eek!

(Although I also missed the "m" on first reading, and was trying to work out 5.2 kilometres using a familar frame of reference. I must have been subconsciously channeling Douglas Adams, as I was trying imagine space-related distances with in comparison to how far it is from my house to the shops.

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