Sentences with phrase «about a kilometer from»

But earlier finds suggest a possible answer: The skull of a 3.3 - million - year - old hominin, Kenyanthropus platytops, was found in 1999 about a kilometer from the tool site.

There was no dock at Yeji, just another beach landing, this one on a point about a kilometer from the town.

The resort is situated about a kilometer from the Golden Fish and the Gradina camping sites, which offer excellent conditions for surfing.

Despite the «Riviera» label, the drive isn't scenic; most of the highway is inland, about a kilometer from the shore, and is flat and straight with no view of the sea.

Beyond the tranquil seclusion of Petiti, you're just minutes from the world - class dining, golf, and slopes of Verbier, with the village center about a kilometer from your door, Verbier Golf Club about two kilometers, and the cable car about a five - minute drive.

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The weather forecast was nasty — rain, temperatures near zero and possible snow — and we were set to do back country camping, about five kilometers in from the nearest road.

Backed by U.S. air support, they've swept west from their bases in Iraqi Kurdistan and captured a huge swath of northeast Syria, estimated by one official at about 17,000 square kilometers.

The $ 85 million Chabahar project, located only about 350 kilometers from Gwadar, is aimed at creating a transit route between India, Iran and Afghanistan.

The train was headed from Paris to Limoges, a 400 -(250 - mile) kilometer journey and was about 20 minutes into what would have been a three - hour journey.

Pentagon spokesman Col. Rob Manning said the missile was launched from Sain Ni, North Korea, and traveled about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) before landing in the Sea of Japan within 370 nautical kilometers (200 nautical miles) of Japan's coast.

Xiao Zufu, 44, who works in brand sales, needed to do just that on a recent trip from his home in Zhejiang Province to Shanghai, about 380 kilometers or 236 miles away.

The attackers reportedly rode up in pickup trucks and opened fire on the buses in Egypt's Minya province, about 220 kilometers from Cairo.

My grandmother lives 55 kilometers away from my parents and it's usually about a 40 minutes drive — on a main road where cars drive much faster than in any village, town or city.

About 2.5 km dual carriage portion from Kilometer Zero will be asphalted but the rest of the road is all surface dressing thus the application of three layers of bitumen and chippings with a thickness of 25 mm.»

Worshippers at Dariqa mosque in Yartabki village, about 15 kilometers from Funtua were scared when they spotted a black polythene bag inside the mosque in the morning.

The planet sits about 9.6 million kilometers from its star, which has only 8 percent of the mass of the sun.

She and her colleagues compared the data with those from similar samples given by another ethnic group called the Saluan, who live about 25 kilometers away in the coastal village of Koyoan, but don't spend much time in the water.

The researchers also found that the corona probably fades into the solar wind between 14 million and 56 million kilometers away from the sun — about 10 to 40 times the sun's diameter.

Slide Show: Space Weather On March 10, 1989, a CME about the size of 36 Earths erupted from the sun's roiling surface and ripped through space at a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) per hour.

Most of the plains, which are visible across the whole moon, seem to originate from debris spewed from the Orientale basin, a 930 - kilometer - wide bowl in the moon's southern hemisphere that formed about 3.8 billion years ago.

* The earthquake struck around 10 P.M. local time about 50 kilometers east of Oklahoma City, and was felt from Saint Louis to Dallas.

And unlike large land mammals in the region, whose dispersal northward was blocked by two broad rivers, these semiaquatic otters and their kin were able to spread unhindered; fossils of a similar species from approximately the same era have been unearthed at another site about 1400 kilometers to the northeast.

At L2, Chang» e 2 is about 932,056 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth.

The solar wind is a stream of electrically conducting gas continuously blowing from the Sun's surface into space at about one million miles (1.6 million kilometers) per hour.

From there they built a convincing case that Sagittarius A * was in fact a black hole — the biggest one in the galaxy, with a mass 4.3 million times that of the sun and a diameter of about 25 million kilometers.

At its closest, G2 will pass about 25 billion kilometers from the event horizon, far enough that it is unlikely to get entirely sucked in.

Those pictures, some of which are sharp enough to spot features 10 centimeters across, were taken by the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, which has been orbiting the comet (seen here in July from a distance of about 160 kilometers) for more than a year now.

Fossils of the other new species, found in rocks of a similar age a few dozen kilometers away, suggest that creature — dubbed Vilevolodon, roughly from the Latin for «toothed glider» — was about as large as a midsized mouse.

Drawing on his data from the Hubble observations, Li estimates that the nucleus — the solid body of the comet itself — is no more than about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) across, smaller than what many astronomers initially expected for such an energetic comet.

The telescope will eventually make its way to the sun - Earth Lagrange point 2, a gravitationally stable spot about 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from our planet.

Within a few years, the main outlet glacier draining the region — Zachariae Isstrom — retreated about 20 kilometers, and regional ice mass loss jumped from zero to roughly 10 metric gigatons a year.

Each site varied in the number of people living within one kilometer (about five - eighths of a mile)-- from nearly a dozen to over 17 thousand.

Based on the wavelengths of spectral lines emitted by the luminous gas surrounding the black hole, the object is traveling at a speed of about 7.5 million kilometers per hour — a rate that would carry it from Earth to the moon in about 3 minutes.

- NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, then about 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from Jupiter, observed the impacts with its ultraviolet spectrometer and a planetary radio astronomy instrument.

The research, reported in tomorrow's Nature, may help to end a persistent debate about whether semimolten rock from just above the outer core can spark isolated eruptions at the surface, nearly 3000 kilometers away.

The pocket, about 250 kilometers across, conducts heat from the core into the hot - spot plume, he believes.

The image, obtained just 12 minutes before the New Horizons craft swooped past Pluto last 14 July, was taken from a range of about 16,000 kilometers.

Krause turned to a collection of 151 mummy heads from the ancient settlement of Abusir el - Meleq, about 100 kilometers south of Cairo along the Nile.

This layer of the atmosphere forms when radiation from the sun strips electrons from, or ionizes, atoms and molecules in the atmosphere between about 75 and 1,000 kilometers above Earth's surface.

In our solar system, the habitable zone (green) extends more than 160 million kilometers, from just beyond Venus (at about 110 million kilometers from the sun) to beyond Mars.

Winds from a category 5 hurricane (the most severe), by comparison, reach about 250 kilometers per hour.

As of October, the southern edge of the berg was about 25 to 30 kilometers from the shelf, offering a research ship some wiggle room to examine the seafloor, Linse says.

From 1994 to 2003, the overall loss of ice shelf volume across the continent was negligible: about 25 cubic kilometers per year (plus or minus 64).

The burst occurred when a giant cloud of plasma ejected from the solar corona, and moving with a speed of about 2.5 million kilometers per hour struck our planet, causing a severe compression of Earth's magnetosphere from 11 to 4 times the radius of Earth.

All told, an estimated 4 million cubic kilometers of molten material emanated from Siberian peaks and fissures over the course of about 800,000 years, with about two - thirds of that spilling forth before and during the mass extinction.

But at 186,00 miles per second (about 18 million kilometers per minute), light would need about 33 minutes to make the trip from Mars to Earth.

For the most part, today's subducting slabs can only sink so far, to about 670 kilometers below the surface, before the mantle's makeup turns from a honey - like consistency, to that of paste — too dense for most slabs to penetrate further.

We don't hear too much about natural dust, the kind that the winds loft from deserts and dry lakebeds into the air and carries for hundreds of kilometers, crossing oceans and continents, but we should.

He had hopscotched from country to country until he capped his stint through French Polynesia with a trip to Mooréa, an island about 16 kilometers northwest of Tahiti.

The Dark Zone of Greenland ice sheet is a large continuous region on the western flank of the ice sheet; it is some 400 kilometers wide stretching about 100 kilometres up from the margin of the ice.