Sentences with phrase «about a kilometre from»

It then landed again a few hours later, bouncing a smaller distance the second time before finally landing about a kilometre from the original landing area (the comet is rotating as well as moving fast).

Aghios Stefanos Beach is the closest beach to Mykonos town, about a kilometre from Troulos and the new Mykonos Port.

At the eastern end of Kalibukbuk, about a kilometre from the dolphin statue, North Bali Adventures Ocean Park is a giant inflatable fun park in the middle of the sea — think giant jumping castles moored above the reef.

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On one night during the bidding period, a woman was murdered about a kilometre away from the home.

The helicopter returned to the US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, located about 2.3 kilometres (1.4 miles) from the school, immediately after the incident.

Will Gibson, a spokesman for Syncrude, which has a plant about 35 kilometres north of town, was himself one of the evacuees heading north away from the flames.

Kinder Morgan's 1,000 - kilometre expansion project has become a national rallying cry for environmentalists, sparked protests from Indigenous communities, caused a trade war between two provinces and brought about the arrest of a federal party leader.

The Granada gold mine is located near Rouyn ‐ Noranda and about 204 kilometres by road from Gowganda.

Highlights include 1.84 g / t gold, 0.85 g / t silver and 0.2 % copper over 71 metres (including 3.61 g / t gold, 1.54 g / t silver and 0.06 % copper over 36 metres) 0.93 g / t gold, 2.02 g / t silver and 0.08 % copper over 94 metres (including 1.58 g / t gold, 0.56 g / t silver and 0.01 % copper over 27 metres) 6.48 g / t gold, 2.05 g / t silver and 0.06 % copper over 13 metres 2.09 g / t gold, 0.66 g / t silver and 0.18 % copper over 27 metres Cerro Quema is located about 45 kilometres from the city of Chitre and about 190 kilometres from Panama City.

Here, a visit is made to the iconic blowholes, which can be found along the rocky, terraced coastline at Houma, approximately 9.3 miles (about 15 kilometres) from Nuku'alofa.

In 1998 Duncan and Deborah Harris bought a property in the Swan Valley — the oldest wine region in Western Australia and about 30 kilometres from Perth — and started establishing an organic vineyard.

Chevallum is a small community in the Sunshine Coast region, about 96 kilometres from Brisbane.

I am glad we have supporters all over the world and have met many on my travels who have become friends but they all needed to know about the rivalry with the other team who live just a kilometre away from us and usually got it when I explained it.

The fresh round of violence is said to have erupted between farmers and herders, leaving many other people injured in Kajuru which is about 50 kilometres from Kaduna, the state capital.

Grasslands mixed with south coastal shrublands and forests dominate Ghana, with forest extending northward from the south - west coast of Ghana on the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean 320 kilometres (200 miles) and eastward for a maximum of about 270 kilometres (170 miles) with the Kingdom of Ashanti or the southern part of Ghana being a primary location for mining of industrial minerals and timber.

Earlier I quoted from Michael Gove's statement about why he was in favour of leaving the EU, and his claim that EU rules dictate «the distance houses have to be from heathland to prevent cats chasing birds (five kilometres) ``.

Mrs Buniya Solomon, stated at the Conoil filling station opposite NNPC towers that «I joined the queue from Reiz Continental hotel (about 1 kilometre away).

It was gathered that the incident happened on Isiokpo - Elele Road in the Ikwerre Local Government Area, about 30 kilometres from Agip Junction in Port Harcourt, where the bus branded, Rivers Mass Transit Company, took off.

«The work starts from kilometre Zero thus from the Bolga - Tamale main traffic light roundabout and ends at Pulmakom which is about 110 km but we are leaving out 13 km between Bolga and the Red Volta because that portion was awarded to MAWUMS construction limited.

He explained that the N1bn listed in the 2017 budget was for the bridge and the construction of the road which is about 28 kilometres from Osogbo to Ilajue, which is the boundary with Oyo State.

And being a pastor at the Charismatic Renewal Ministry, the choice of the church to host the union fell on the branch of the ministry at Daudu, about 20 kilometres from Makurdi, the capital of Benue State.

«This morning, the Assembly man in Diaso electoral area reported at the station that around 6.15, he had a message that a male adult aged about 46, had been found dead at the outskirts of Modaso, another village about 6 kilometres from Diaso so the Police went to the place.

It can go from zero to 95 kilometres an hour in 3.1 seconds, and can travel about 430 kilometres on a single charge, although charging it can take many hours.

Dust appears to lie in a belt that extends a few hundred million kilometres from Proxima Centauri and has a total mass of about one hundredth of the Earth's mass.

Old assumptions about comets are faltering as results emerge from data collected by the Deep Impact spacecraft in July 2005, when the probe's impactor detached from the mother ship and crashed into the comet at 37,000 kilometres (23,000 miles) per hour.

Using the probe's latest data, Paul Byrne at the Carnegie Institution in Washington DC has found that Mercury shrank more than previously thought, losing about 11 kilometres from its original girth.

After analysing the moon's wrinkled surface with data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Klimczak thinks that the moon shrank by at least 2 kilometres — previous estimates pegged the contraction at only about 200 metres.

Adding to the puzzle, Paul Byrne at the Carnegie Institution in Washington DC recently found that Mercury shrank even more than previously thought, losing about 11 kilometres from its original girth.

On Titan the photochemistry starts at the top of the atmosphere, about 1000 kilometres up, where energetic ultraviolet photons from the sun and cosmic rays trigger reactions among methane and nitrogen molecules.

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.

Discovered in 1982, it lies about 9 kilometres southeast of Ka in southern Turkey, and dates from around 1300 BC, a century or two after the Minoans disappeared.

The portable huts of the Tungus nomads were blown over, about 1000 reindeer were killed in the resulting stampede, and at the Vanovara factory, 60 kilometres from the explosion, doors were lifted from their hinges, windows shattered and pictures fell from walls.

Since the comet nucleus is very small, at a diameter of 4 kilometres, the summer zone is only about one kilometre away from the winter zone.

[6] This is the only way to pin down the precise size and shape of such a remote body — Chariklo is only about 250 kilometres in diameter and is more than a billion kilometres from Earth.

The huge dam, scheduled for completion in about fifteen years, will cost between $ 22 and $ 34 billion, create a reservoir 600 kilometres long and force more than a million people from their homes.

The part that's affected is about 1,100 kilometres long, from New Guinea down to about Cairns [the whole reef is approximately 2,300 kilometres long].

A unique box of tricks designed to detect neutrinos beamed from Fermilab, about 725 kilometres away in Batavia, Illinois, is buried here.

OPERA detected neutrinos fired from CERN, about 730 kilometres away in Geneva, Switzerland, and found they arrived 60 nanoseconds earlier than expected, implying they zipped along at one part in 40,000 faster than the speed of light.

The city of Tauranga, with more than 100,000 residents, lies about 50 kilometres west of the uplift.Elaine Smid, a volcanologist at the University of Auckland, notes that people in the area are already at risk from volcanic hazards, especially ashfall from the Taupo volcanoes.

The technique relies on each cellular tower recording the signal strength of the microwave transmissions it receives from its neighbours, which are usually spaced about 3 kilometres from one another.

The area is about 2000 kilometres from the Bering Strait.

All 17 detected objects range in diameter from between about 100 kilometres and 400 kilometres.

The interstellar gas is blown about by shock waves from exploding stars that can propel it at thousands of kilometres per second — fast enough to cross the Earth in...

A multinational team on board the research vessel Joides Resolution, a «floating laboratory», is about to collect sediment samples from 1.5 kilometres beneath the ocean floor.

About a quarter live in cities, but most are in rural areas, often hundreds of kilometres from a large town.

Before deliberately crashing into Mercury last week, Messenger had kept its distance for most of its four - year mission, taking a highly elliptical orbit that brought it no closer than about 200 kilometres from the scorched surface.

Furthermore, the team tested the theory against observations of NASA's 34 - year - old Pioneer 10 spacecraft, which appears about 400,000 kilometres away from its expected location in the outer solar system.

But when Messenger dipped below an altitude of about 100 kilometres, it saw an even weaker magnetic signal coming from the rocks on the surface.

This means they orbit their stars at distances ranging from about 0.05 to 4 times the Earth - Sun distance — 149 million kilometres (93 million miles).

The star is travelling away from us at a speed of about 700 kilometres per second — much faster than ordinary stars in the galactic neighbourhood.