# It's ON: nothing like Donkey Kong (Radar Images of Asteroid) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 23, 2024, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-on-nothing-like-donkey-kong-radar-images-of-asteroid/1007627 "2024-09-23T21:24:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [September 23, 2024, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-on-nothing-like-donkey-kong-radar-images-of-asteroid/1007627/1 "2024-09-23T21:24:54Z")
There are some excellent radar images of Asteroid 2024 ON, which passed nearby a week ago. A contact binary. > **[NASA reveals images of enormous, snowman-shaped asteroid 2024 ON after its...](https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/nasa-reveals-images-of-enormous-snowman-shaped-asteroid-2024-on-after-its-ultra-close-approach-to-earth)** > > New close-up images reveal the surprising snowman shape of "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 ON, which tumbled safely past our planet on Sept. 17. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2024, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-on-nothing-like-donkey-kong-radar-images-of-asteroid/1007627/2 "2024-09-24T01:27:45Z")
Great cite. Thank you. Somehow I am reminded of the marauding giant Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man from _Ghostbusters_ crossed with the Mr. Peanut character who was much more prominent in Planters Nuts’ marketing back in the 1960s and really freaked 5yo me out. I just know I don’t want that to get close enough to hit us. > What’s that up in the sky? > It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a … > Giant falling peanut?!!!??!?! Even Underdog can’t save us now. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2024, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-on-nothing-like-donkey-kong-radar-images-of-asteroid/1007627/3 "2024-09-24T04:12:44Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I just know I don’t want that to get close enough to hit us. Size estimates that I’m seeing so far are inconsistent, but it seems to be around a thousand footer. So yeah, it would leave a mark. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2024, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-on-nothing-like-donkey-kong-radar-images-of-asteroid/1007627/4 "2024-09-24T12:01:14Z")
It would in fact be cool to get a fresh surface impact crater big enough to be an instant tourist attraction and a huge boon / treasure trove of data to the scientists who study that stuff while at the same time being remote enough that nearly nobody is directly harmed\*. And big enough to be impressive on a human scale but small enough to not trigger a worldwide or even regional eco-disaster. * * * \* I _almost_ wrote “impacted” instead of “harmed” but that seemed too easy a joke to make. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-on-nothing-like-donkey-kong-radar-images-of-asteroid/1007627/5 "2024-09-24T12:23:07Z")
Given its shape and coloring, it reminds me much more of a peanut. Were we to have an unfortunate rendezvous with that peanut, it would be a super “owie” for the earth. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-on-nothing-like-donkey-kong-radar-images-of-asteroid/1007627/6 "2024-09-24T12:35:15Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > the Mr. Peanut character Mr. Peanut was exactly what I thought of seeing those pictures, not a snowman. Just needs a top hat, monacle, and walking stick. ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-on-nothing-like-donkey-kong-radar-images-of-asteroid/1007627/7 "2024-09-24T12:45:17Z")
> It was traveling at 19,842 mph (31,933 km/h), or around 26 times the speed of sound. Speed of sound!? In space, no one can hear Mr. Peanut scream. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2024, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-on-nothing-like-donkey-kong-radar-images-of-asteroid/1007627/8 "2024-09-24T19:13:21Z")
2024 ON would possibly produce something similar to this, if it was solid enough to not shatter in the atmosphere. > **[Mars Odyssey All Stars: Dual Crater - NASA Science](https://science.nasa.gov/resource/mars-odyssey-all-stars-dual-crater/)** > > If a meteorite breaks in two shortly before hitting the ground, the typical bowl shape of a single impact crater becomes doubled. Or they could seperate from each other by a number of miles during atmospheric entry. The iron asteroid that created the Barringer crater in Arizona (3900 feet across) is estimated to have been around 150 feet. With that as a rough guide, with 2024 ON being two rocks in the roughly 500 feet range, we’re probably talking 2 ceaters in the 2 or 3 mile range. Not a planet killer, but a few cubic miles of rock in the air could be problematic. BTW, the most recent cratering event on Earth was in 2007, but it was only around 50 feet and in soil, not rock. But it was surrounded by drama, and the meteoroid that caused it was far too small and fragile to have any right still traveling at hypervelicity when it struck and only managed it through unique (to modern knowledge) freak accident. > **[2007 Carancas impact event](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Carancas_impact_event)** > > The Carancas impact event refers to the fall of the Carancas chondritic meteorite on September 15, 2007, near the village of Carancas in Peru, close to the Bolivian border and Lake Titicaca. The impact created a small crater in the clay soil and scorched earth around its location. A local official, Marco Limache, said that "boiling water started coming out of the crater, and particles of rock and cinders were found nearby", as "fetid, noxious" gases spewed from the crater. After the impact, villa... > **[Brown Scientist Answers How Peruvian Meteorite Made It to Earth](https://news.brown.edu/articles/2008/03/carancas-meteorite)** > > Brown University professor Peter Schultz’s study of the Peruvian meteorite has yielded some interesting conclusions that could upend the conventional wisdom about the size and type of meteorites that can strike Earth. [http://www.geotimes.org/july08/article.html?id=feature\_meteorite.html](http://www.geotimes.org/july08/article.html?id=feature_meteorite.html) > **[Carancas Meteorite – Meteorite Recon](https://www.meteorite-recon.com/home/meteorite-documentaries/carancas-meteorite)** > > At 16:45 UTC in the afternoon of September 15, the small town of Carancas in Provincia Chucuito, Peru, was shaken by an enormous detonation. Eye wittnesses described a smoke trail that had descended from the sky and had exploded on contact with the... ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2024, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-on-nothing-like-donkey-kong-radar-images-of-asteroid/1007627/9 "2024-09-25T04:14:26Z")
Just wanted to let you know I saw what you did there: > **[Donkey Kong from Radarscope Conversion (TKG2)](https://mynintendoarcade.com/2018/02/03/donkey-kong-from-radarscope-conversion-tkg2/)** > > Nintendo’s entry into the arcade scene in the US didn’t get off to a great start. After the success of Nintendo’s shooter Radarscope in Japan, an order of 3,000 cabinets was made and delivered to t…