Sentences with phrase «kilometers in circumference»

Gili Air is really small — only 5 kilometers in circumference, and while it sits in close proximity to the notorious indonesian party island,...
It's 27 kilometers in circumference; it's run by the pan-European laboratory CERN.
European particle physicists will draw up plans for a pair of circular particle colliders, to be built one after the other, that would measure 80 to 100 kilometers in circumference and smash particles at unprecedented energies, officials at the European particle physics laboratory CERN announced today.

Not exact matches

In synchrotrons, electrons go whizzing around a storage ring a kilometer or more in circumferencIn synchrotrons, electrons go whizzing around a storage ring a kilometer or more in circumferencin circumference.
Fermilab intends to reuse most of the Tevatron's parts for making neutrinos, including a booster accelerator that prepared protons for entry into the main Tevatron ring, which measures 3.9 miles (6.3 kilometers) in circumference.
As seen in these and other Cassini images, the storm encircles the planet — whose circumference at these latitudes is 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers).
To put this distance into perspective, keep in mind that the circumference of the earth at the equator is 24,901.55 miles (40,075.16 kilometers), so I effectively flew around the earth 1.4 times during my travel period.
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