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[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Burgerland units aside, the math on this ain't mathing...

A 12oz can is about 360 ml. A baby elephant is something like 100 +/- 10kg. That's a density of 300kg / 360cm³ = 833.3 g/cm³ (plus or minus 10%). The heaviest element that is common enough to be found naturally floating about in big chunks is lead, and that's just 11.3 g/cm³. The actual heaviest with sufficiently stable isotopes is Osmium with 22.6 g/cm³. Most meteorites are nowhere near even that, with the heaviest usually being made of iron and around 7 or 8 g/cm³.

Since i don't think there are any compressive forces acting on a free floating chunk of... whatever this is supposed to be out in space that could increase density to the point where these numbers work out, i assume this is either a joke or someone misread the data by a factor of 100.

Alternatively, the asteroid could be travelling at 99.995% the speed of light for a relativistic mass dilation by a factor of 100. I also highly doubt this.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 days ago (4 children)

lol yeah this thing would have to be incredibly dense, also I can't imagine how you'd even detect something so small

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Another fun fact: the density this thing would have would be far higher than the density of anything found outside of the cores of stars.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 days ago

I think we can safely conclude the meme is not actually real :)

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