Asteroid 4942
has been named Munroe, after Randall Munroe, the cartoonist who draws
XKCD.
Here is its entry in the Small Bodies Database.
The first thing I did was try to figure out whether 4942 Munroe was big enough to pose a threat to Earth. I was excited to learn that, based on its albedo (brightness), it’s probably about 6-10 kilometers in
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