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| Title |
Now that's a close shave: secrets of the Halloween asteroid headed for Earth
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|---|---|
| Published by |
The Conversation, October 2015
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| Authors |
Daniel Brown |
| Abstract |
An asteroid will flash by the Earth on Saturday. What do we know about it? And what would happen if a such an object did hit us? |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 52 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 16 | 31% |
| Canada | 2 | 4% |
| United States | 2 | 4% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 2% |
| Jordan | 1 | 2% |
| Poland | 1 | 2% |
| Norway | 1 | 2% |
| South Africa | 1 | 2% |
| Italy | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 2 | 4% |
| Unknown | 24 | 46% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 35 | 67% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 9 | 17% |
| Scientists | 7 | 13% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 2% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 139. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 March 2020.
All research outputs
#297,361
of 25,388,229 outputs
Outputs from The Conversation
#37,119
of 184,395 outputs
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#4,150
of 293,159 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Conversation
#472
of 4,174 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,388,229 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 184,395 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 92.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 79% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 4,174 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.