Sentences with phrase «of a mile wide»

NASA's Spaceguard survey program, established in 1998, aims to locate and follow at least 90 percent of the estimated 1,100 asteroids that come within about 30 million miles of Earth's orbit around the sun and that are larger than two - thirds of a mile wide.

How this dynamo was initiated and how it works is mysterious, but it seems that the circulation of liquid metal through a magnetic field (which must have begun eons ago) causes a feedback loop of electricity and magnetism and unleashes a powerful electric current hundreds of miles wide.

NASA researchers have their own plan, the Near - Earth Object Program — the agency's program to spot 90 percent of all potentially hazardous asteroids more than two - thirds of a mile wide that might hit Earth in the foreseeable future.

They were big bites: Blocks of mud perhaps 20 miles long, a couple of miles wide, and 150 feet high rushed down the slope.

Winds exceeding 200 miles per hour tear a devastating path three quarters of a mile wide for six miles through the town, destroying schools, a hospital, businesses and homes and claiming roughly 160 lives.

These passages allowed the fire to spread to the coal seam underneath the town and expand along four fronts, eventually affecting a surface area about two miles long and three - quarters of a mile wide.

The hope is that objects as small as a third of a mile wide will be detectable.

It's an asteroid a quarter of a mile wide called Apophis, and it has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2036.

In some states, the standards are sort of a mile wide and an inch deep.

The content philosophy of a mile wide and an inch thick contrasts with our approach, which is an inch wide and a mile thick.

The western, and largest island of this group, is two miles (3 km) long by six tenths of a mile wide, and rises to a peak of 930 feet (280 m).

Middle Island is one and a half miles long, a quarter of a mile wide and 325 feet (99 m) at its highest point.

The easternmost island is one mile (1.6 km) long, a quarter of a mile wide, and rises 250 feet (76 m) above the water.

Flanked by lush, rugged, low - lying hills, Guanica harbor appears as an equatorial fjord and is about three miles deep and a quarter of a mile wide.

This was no ordinary Typhoon; wind speeds that high are more commonly associated with tornadoes, not massive storms that are hundreds of miles wide.

Bennu is about one - third of a mile wide and weighs 174 billion pounds.

Not exact matches

Hurricane Sandy paralyzed businesses throughout some of the most densely populated places in the country as the center of the 500 - mile - wide storm barreled ashore in the mid-Atlantic states.

I don't really believe that any startup should get so far out ahead of themselves that they're «a mile wide and an inch deep,» because there are huge execution risks in terms of support and maintaining effective connections to your customers.

On August 8, 1975, the dam collapsed and sent a wall of water nearly 20 feet (6 meters) high and 7.5 miles wide (12 kilometers) downriver, according to a summary of a chapter in the book «The River Dragon Has Come!»

Measuring roughly 277 miles long and 18 miles wide, the Grand Canyon offers plenty of outdoor activities for adventure junkies.

Why go: Measuring roughly 277 miles long and 18 miles wide, the Grand Canyon offers plenty of outdoor activities for adventure junkies.

Since then it's taken the first - ever photos of Jupiter's poles, discovered atmospheric «rivers» of ammonia, watched 870 - mile - wide cyclones swirl, recorded mysterious auroras, and probed deep into the planet's thick cloud tops for evidence of a solid core, among other feats.

Since then, it has taken the first - ever photos of Jupiter's poles, discovered atmospheric «rivers» of ammonia, watched 870 - mile - wide cyclones swirl, recorded mysterious auroras, and probed deep into the planet's thick cloud tops for evidence of a solid core, among other feats.

«Now that I'm 60, one of the biggest challenges I have is to make sure we have a culture that's not just a mile wide and an inch deep but, hopefully, a mile wide and a mile deep.

Wall Street is going the extra mile to win hearts and minds by plowing hundreds of millions into a wide gamut of community projects.

Out of these, four allow you to collect airline miles, which you can redeem for airfare and other airline rewards, three are cobranded hotel cards that offer hotel nights in exchange for your points and 21 are general rewards cards that offer a wide variety of redemption options.

UK authorities with the Information Commissioner's Office raided the offices of Cambridge Analytica, a shady election - data firm that allegedly partnered with an app to take advantage of mile - wide loopholes in Facebook policies and run off with 50 million users» data, on Friday.

The biggest immediate cost - advantage comes from savings in energy costs: fully loaded, the Tesla Semi consumes less than two kilowatt - hours of energy per mile and is capable of 500 miles of range at GVW and highway speed, accommodating a wide range of shipping applications given that nearly 80 % of freight in the U.S. is moved less than 250 miles.

When you join the award - winning Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan ™ program, you have a wide range of options to quickly earn airline miles that will get you closer to your next dream getaway.

Some opponents have argued access to the 1 1/2 - mile - wide river, with its potential to dilute vast amounts of pollution, would let Georgia - Pacific increase production and create more waste without running afoul of environmental laws.»

Then, a couple of things went Kenney's way: opposing candidates waited until late September to go public, giving the former federal Conservative minister miles of runway to mount a province - wide pickup - truck tour.

The entire storm was over 400 miles wide, which is almost the entire length of Florida and the eye was 25 - 30 miles wide.

In the case of American Water Works, it has a moat more than a mile wide filled with angry mutant sharks.

It is essential to have a wide spread of miles, points and loyalty cards across different programs.

The problem here is that comet would have needed be 1,000 miles wide or approximately the size of Brazil.

For a period of four hours, this would have created a land bridge about two miles long and three miles wide.

It occupies a territory 150 miles long and 80 miles wide, about the size of the state of Vermont, and is in nearly the same latitude north of the equator as our state of Georgia.

Meeting at Khartoum they create a fertile valley 10 to 30 miles wide, which is in sharp contrast to the desert of Sahara, just west of it.

In my conversations about this, people usually then turn to the book of Revelation and point out how when Jesus returns a second time, He is going to kill so many people that there will be a lake of blood 200 miles wide and as deep as a horse's bridle (Rev 14:20).

Cyprus is 140 miles long and 60 miles wide, about the size of ancient Israel.

In the winter, the men «went to the bush» for long months in rough company and risky work, until the great spring drive when the Ottawa River, more than a mile wide, was filled with the booms of millions of logs heading south to feed an insatiable market for wood.

The complaints frequently invoke the old adage of being «a mile wide and an inch deep».

But behind those big numbers and Bush's earlier boast that he had gone «the last mile for peace» is the really big fact that he refused to practice any constructive diplomacy: no arbitration of claims; no discussion of a wider Middle East conference; not even any «face - saving» device for a proud Arab dictator that just might have freed Kuwait and prevented the present carnage (we shall never know).

Zoos would be regarded as barbaric as 14th century prisons, and we would subordinate our own desires for immortality to the cold hard reality of an uncaring Universe in which every species on the planet lives in a narrow 7 mile wide soap film below which there is 1,000 degree magma and above which there is the near absolute - zero vacuum of outer space.

Several years ago I read about a study done on a group of small children who were taken to the top of a mountain where there was this wide open space that went on for miles and were told to go play.

For decades, the 6 - mile - long, 2 - mile - wide island has been a destination for tourists in search of sun, sand and sea.

The data shows that the beverage industry has the largest fleet of fuel - efficient heavy - duty hybrid commercial vehicles in North America, and has increased fuel economy (miles per gallon) industry - wide by 3 percent per year since at least 2010.

The mile - high, flaky creation is taller and wider than most, and every paper - thin sheet, from the dark, carmely exterior to the buttery puffs of air within, is visible from counter-level view.

Buyers can preview models a few miles south of Reunion at Green Valley Ranch, where they'll see wide - open entertaining spaces and up to eight bedrooms.

Estate coffee beans of coffee farms that are all situated in the Kona Coffee Belt on one of two volcanoes: Hualalai or Mauna Loa, that is roughly 30 miles long and 2 miles wide, running south from the Kona airport.