# Asteroid = 28 sheep? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 6, 2023, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asteroid-28-sheep/985076 "2023-06-06T01:25:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asteroid-28-sheep/985076/21 "2023-06-06T22:19:38Z")
What kind of weirdo doesn’t know how to use fruit or sports equipment to describe how big something is? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asteroid-28-sheep/985076/22 "2023-06-06T22:23:25Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > What kind of weirdo doesn’t know how to use fruit or sports equipment to describe how big something is? - Did you know the average apple is one baseball in volume? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asteroid-28-sheep/985076/23 "2023-06-06T23:52:51Z")
And 1/3 of a Smurf high. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asteroid-28-sheep/985076/24 "2023-06-07T03:19:17Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > My favorites are Hoover Dams (for volumes of concrete) and Titanics (length or sometimes height). The best unnatural units are wildly inappropriate in scale. When measuring things like ships and planets I prefer Peeps as the unit of mass. > **[Home - 2023 Holiday | Peeps](https://www.peepsbrand.com/)** > > Popular PEEPS® Candy & Gear Celebrate Halloween with the sweetest Marshmallow that has been a family tradition for 70 years. EXPRESS YOUR PEEPSONALI ... At roughly 10g = 0.375oz per each, it takes a very large number to outweigh a ship, a building, or a planet. Conversely the Moon is an excellent unit of mass for measuring quantities for cooking at home. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asteroid-28-sheep/985076/25 "2023-06-07T04:14:43Z")
The metric barn is fun. > **[Barn (unit)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_%28unit%29?wprov=sfla1)** > > A barn (symbol: b) is a metric unit of area equal to 10−28 m2 (100 fm2). Originally used in nuclear physics for expressing the cross sectional area of nuclei and nuclear reactions, today it is also used in all fields of high-energy physics to express the cross sections of any scattering process, and is best understood as a measure of the probability of interaction between small particles. A barn is approximately the cross-sectional area of a uranium nucleus. The barn is also the unit of area used... ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asteroid-28-sheep/985076/26 "2023-06-07T12:28:55Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > The metric barn is fun. > > [Barn (unit) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_%28unit%29?wprov=sfla1) How many metric barns in Robin Hood’s barn? > The reference here is that Robin Hood’s barn—i.e. the land around his territory—was all the open pastureland around Sherwood Forest. > **[Robin Hood’s barn](https://www.haggardhawks.com/post/robin-hood-s-barn)** > > (n.) an unnecessarily long or circuitous route or means of doing something We’ve dealt with Robin Hood’s mile before here on HH, but it turns out England’s favourite arrow-firing folk hero crops up in a fair few phrases and expressions in our... ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asteroid-28-sheep/985076/27 "2023-06-07T13:24:37Z")
One of my professors used to measure the sugar for his tea in barn-kiloparsecs. Which turns out to actually be a reasonable unit: There’s about three barn-kiloparsecs in a teaspoon. Also, an acre is exactly the area of a rectangle 99 miles long by 1 inch wide. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asteroid-28-sheep/985076/28 "2023-06-07T14:05:46Z")
You are thinking of Bovine units, which only have a radius. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asteroid-28-sheep/985076.md?page=1)