Sentences with phrase «landing about a kilometre»

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).

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The fragments are among a find of about 8000 fossils from shales in Peary Land, 800 kilometres from the North Pole.

Its TRY 2004 building would occupy about 8 square kilometres of land and provide offices and homes for a million people.

When he sailed past Fraser Island his ships log states that he was 2 leagues, (about 11 kilometres), off the land and at that distance his lookout would have been unable to spot the narrow channel at the southern end of Fraser Island which separates it from the mainland.

For us land - lubbers who only navigate roads, that's about 430 kilometres south - east of...

Elanora Units is situated about 16 kilometres from Mackay on almost two acres of beach front land.

For spying whales from land, head about 9 miles / 14 kilometres west of San Pedro to Point Vicente Interpretive Center.

There was all blue meaning rain about 10 kilometres from land.

Queensland is destroying tree cover at the rate of 10 square kilometres a day, harming biodiversity while stoking doubts about federal data suggesting emissions from land clearing are in decline.

The western part of the Tethys evolved into the Mediterranean Sea not long after it had been cut off from the global ocean system about 6 million to 5 million years ago and had formed evaporite deposits which reach up to several kilometres in thickness in a land - locked basin that may have resembled Death Valley in present - day California.

It uses about one square kilometre of land and has a PEAK output of 23 MW (the average power output is only about 3 MW, due to clouds and night).

According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), we are losing about 77 square miles (200 square kilometres) of forest each day thanks to decisions that the land should be used for something else.

In 2005, the federal and provincial governments signed a land claim agreement with the Labrador Inuit — about 5,300 people — covering 72,500 square kilometres.

The area comprised about 30 square kilometres of land and water most of which was Crown land or held by Darwin City Council and Palmerston City Council.66 The area generally has not been used for commercial or residential development.