Sentences with phrase «about a kilometre in»

Radar images from the flyby indicate that the body is about a kilometre in diameter, while infrared spectra indicate that the comet's nucleus is as dark as fresh asphalt.

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At the Svartedalen retirement home in Gothenburg, about 460 kilometres southwest of Falun, managers report that the standard of care has improved since the trial reset the staff's work - life balance earlier this year.

It accelerates like a 911 (zero to 100 kilometres per hour in 4.4 seconds, top speed a limited 250 km / h) but sips fuel at an average of just 4.8 litres per 100 km (about the same as a Prius).

The trains are expected start operating in early 2019 with speeds of 250 kilometres (155 miles) an hour, and a fare of about $ 16 for a journey of about 40 minutes.

About 130 kilometres to the north of the reserve, multinational miner Cliffs Natural Resources wants to develop a huge chromite mine to make a key ingredient in stainless steel.

That's clearly false — only a small area of the oil sands deposit — about 4,750 square kilometres, or 3 times the land area of Los Angeles — is mineable, with the remainder accessible only with in situ extraction or, in some cases, not recoverable at all with current technology.

But it was getting paired with mentor Sue Kuethe that proved to be the key to connecting a passion for renewables with a practical application in Peavine Settlement, about 60 kilometres north of High Prairie in Peace Country.

Since then a magnetotelluric survey covered some 36 square kilometres, adding geophysical detail to a 2016 gravity survey and showing a conductive zone that starts about 500 metres in depth.

The outbreak was detected in late October at the Langfield Pastoral Company, about 27 kilometres north - east of Young in south - west NSW.

In the US, it costs $ 10 a tonne for a 1000 - kilometre rail trip to port, while in Australia, it costs about $ 25 a tonne for a 500 - kilometre rail triIn the US, it costs $ 10 a tonne for a 1000 - kilometre rail trip to port, while in Australia, it costs about $ 25 a tonne for a 500 - kilometre rail triin Australia, it costs about $ 25 a tonne for a 500 - kilometre rail trip.

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 vineyarIn 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 vineyarin the Swan Valley — the oldest wine region in Western Australia and about 30 kilometres from Perth — and started establishing an organic vineyarin 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.

It was built in 1910 about 18 kilometres north of Cochrane, Alberta, by Mr. and Mrs. James Andison...

About 83 square kilometres of wrapping paper will be chucked out or burned in the UK at Christmas time, which is enough to gift wrap the island of Jersey.

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) ``.

Some people mistakenly think this is what Liechtenstein - a tiny 25 kilometre long microstate with a population of 37,000 - uses to block free movement, but in actual fact they have a separate treaty provision which they negotiated at the time of their ascension to the EEA and which is anyway mostly about refugees.

Covering about 70,000 square kilometres, the Niger Delta region is home to one of the largest wetlands in the world and Africa's largest delta.

There has also been «microscopic» progress in efforts to get ten per cent of new cars emitting under 100g per kilometre by 2012 - this would be the equivalent of about 250,000 cars, but in 2004 just 481 cars fit into this category.

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.

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.

JESUSEGUN ALAGBE reports about Ife - Odan, a community in Ejigbo Local Government Area of Osun State, where a number of pregnant women have lost their lives while travelling several kilometres on motorcycles to access medical care and give birth to their babies Around 11 am on one windy day in February in Ife - Odan, Osun State, Olusola Adeniran -LSB-...]

«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.

Noctilucent clouds appear about 80 kilometres above the Earth in each hemisphere's summer.

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.

About 30 kilometres west of Zurich, the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) makes up the third in the suite of three government - funded research centres.

«The simulations showed that the only way to account for the proven increase in volcanic activity was that the level (and thus the weight) of the Mediterranean Sea dropped by about two kilometres,» explains Sternai, before adding: «I leave it to you to imagine what the landscape looked like.»

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.

Estimated changes in the mass of Greenland's ice sheet suggest it is melting at a rate of about 239 cubic kilometres (57.3 cubic miles) per year.

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.

About 350 kilometres above Earth, the Russian Progress resupply vehicle begins closing in on the Mir space station.

Hussein is the resident bird guide at the Azraq Wetland Reserve, a tiny oasis in the Jordanian desert about 100 kilometres east of the capital Amman.

The street lamps will be installed along 9.2 kilometres of road in Albertslund, covering about 1.5 square kilometres in total.

When the floodwaters evaporated, the millimetre of silt left behind became the youngest stratum in a succession of sediment layers that is today about 1.5 kilometres thick.

But now, the rate of shrinkage seems to be slowing again, even though the spot is still about 240 kilometres smaller than it was in 2014.

The images of 288P, which is located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, revealed that it was actually not a single object, but two asteroids of almost the same mass and size, orbiting each other at a distance of about 100 kilometres.

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.

AN unemployed fisherman in New South Wales was fined $ 500 last week for riding on the back of a southern right whale in Bermagui Harbour, about 300 kilometres south of Sydney.

[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.

In 1993 the average error of forecasting where the centre of a tropical cyclone would be 24 hours later was about 200 kilometres.

After being split into five separate beams, the laser light illuminates sodium atoms naturally present in a layer within the mesosphere, about 90 kilometres high.

A working time machine might require two wormhole mouths each about 10 kilometres in diameter.

Between 1968 and 1972 he fought the Americans in the jungles of the Aluoi Valley, about 60 kilometres west of the coastal town of Hue.

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

One of them broke apart at an altitude of about 18 kilometres, the other sailed on to eventually land in Lake Chebarkul, leaving a 7 - metre - wide hole in the ice.