Tonight, a 4.4 km big asteroid flys by the earth, 18 moon-earth-distances away, named after Florence Nightingale. jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?…
It’s the largest asteroid so close to us since 1998, when NASA began to track them. Would it be devastating? Yes. quora.com/How-big-would-…
Fortunately, that doesn’t happen so often. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_ev…
I love that they named the asteroid after Nightingale. Many of us data vis peeps know her from this chart: hernanresnizky.com/2012/12/17/flo…
I wanted to know more. Nightingale was exceptional; transforming nursing as her calling. Here are my fav bits from her Wikipedia article:
Interestingly, she didn’t have a high opinion of women. Maybe the lack of uber strong women like herself around her led to this impression.
She was so much more important for us than the asteroid with her name will ever become. It will pass. Nightingale’s impact stuck around.