Sentences with phrase «of about a kilometer»

The Hubble and TAOS surveys, along with their predecessors, indicate that some mechanism seems to curb the population of KBOs that have diameters of about a kilometer to tens of kilometers, relative to what one would expect from extrapolating downward from the observed population of large KBOs.

Airplanes can cover large distances but can't fly low enough to collect VOC samples, which reach heights of about a kilometer or less above the canopy.

Not exact matches

It can hit about 174 mph (280 kilometers per hour), which is on par with some of the quickest small passenger aircrafts.

The Mexico City service will launch with set routes including between Mexico City's main international airport and the Toluca International Airport, a distance of about 50 miles (80 kilometers).

The Arkema plant in Crosby, Texas, is about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north east of Houston.

In June, Shanghai opened the country's first intelligent vehicle pilot zone, where its trialed about 200 vehicles across nine miles (15 kilometers) of test roads in a closed zone at Shanghai's international automobile city, the government said in a statement.

Shanghai is expected to build an intelligent - vehicle network covering about 62 miles (100 square kilometers) by 2020, the government said, adding that Shanghai will explore the possibility of connecting to major transportation junctions within the city.

These permitted maximum emissions of 44 milligrams of NOx per kilometer, about one - fourth the 180 mg / km permitted by the Euro 5 standard that would also take effect in 2009.

Backed by U.S. air support, they've swept west from their bases in Iraqi Kurdistan and captured a huge swath of northeast Syria, estimated by one official at about 17,000 square kilometers.

Pentagon spokesman Col. Rob Manning said the missile was launched from Sain Ni, North Korea, and traveled about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) before landing in the Sea of Japan within 370 nautical kilometers (200 nautical miles) of Japan's coast.

Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said the missile landed inside of Japan's special economic zone in the Sea of Japan, about 250 kilometers 155 miles) west of Aomori, which is on the northern part of Japan's main island of Honshu.

Now imagine the same information cloaked in the trappings of a great story, «a story about a family in South America that is being affected by changes in the global economy — a story about the father going to work in a foreign country to earn enough for the family, and the mother having to drive 100 kilometers for health care.»

The missile is claimed to have a maximum speed of 11,200 kilometers per hour (about 7,000 mph or Mach 10), and is also said to be highly maneuverable.

The missile flew about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) and landed in the sea east of Japan, but it crested at a remarkable 4,500 kilometers (2,800 miles) above the Earth's surface, making it the highest and longest - lasting flight North Korea has completed to date.

Sanguenay, about 200 kilometers north of Quebec City, is apparently Canada's happiest metropolitan city, according to Statistics Canada's life satisfaction study.

In an unfamiliar town and his battery down to about 60 kilometers of charge left, he used QQ to find a fellow Tesla owner nearby who let him charge his battery.

Puerto Rican police said the incident occurred around midnight Saturday in the town of Comerio, about 19 miles (30 kilometers) southwest of San Juan.

The fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade came ashore late Friday about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of Corpus Christi as a mammoth Category 4 storm with 130 mph (209 kph) winds.

The Matternet M2 drones that attained clearance in Switzerland have a maximum range of 20 kilometers or about 12 miles, and can carry a 2 kilogram payload.

About the tenth century, when the ancient Scandinavians, the Vikings, were frequenting North America, the humid portion of the east, as far as the mid-east of what is now the United States of North America, was covered by a dense forest of 1.6 million square kilometers.

The planet has huge amounts of water — about 1,360,000,000 cubic kilometers.

Kirkuk is an ethnically divided mixed city located about 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of Baghdad.

They traveled to Bharatpur, about 150 kilometers west of Kathmandu, to make their public proclamation in Pastor Bishnu's church.

Barreling across the desert straightaway, air horns no doubt at the ready, Miller and Lange's Liberty Belle broke just about every record for such behemoths: in seven runs they smashed various standing - start and flying - start marks at a quarter mile, a half kilometer, a full kilometer and a mile — 14 in all, each of which has been certified by the U.S. Auto Club as a national record.

According to News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, details of the project indicate the development of a sugar cane plantation of about 16,000 hectares or 160 kilometre square, longer than Lagos to Ibadan expressway which is estimated between 120 kilometres and 130 kilometers — more than 30 kilometres shorter than the proposed sugar plantation.

About 2.5 km dual carriage portion from Kilometer Zero will be asphalted but the rest of the road is all surface dressing thus the application of three layers of bitumen and chippings with a thickness of 25 mm.»

Researchers looked at the ratios of two forms of oxygen atoms in the minerals deposited in layers in two stalagmites that had formed in a cave in the Himalayan foothills about 200 kilometers north of New Delhi.

The planet sits about 9.6 million kilometers from its star, which has only 8 percent of the mass of the sun.

She and her colleagues compared the data with those from similar samples given by another ethnic group called the Saluan, who live about 25 kilometers away in the coastal village of Koyoan, but don't spend much time in the water.

Humans and cheetahs are a case in point: Although the two humans included in the team's study weighed in at 70 kilograms and had an average top speed of about 41 kilometers per hour, the heftiest cheetah weighed about 5 kilograms less but ran nearly three times as fast.

Observations of supernovas suggest that the universe is expanding at 73 kilometers per second for each megaparsec (about 3.3 million light - years).

Slide Show: Space Weather On March 10, 1989, a CME about the size of 36 Earths erupted from the sun's roiling surface and ripped through space at a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) per hour.

Most of the plains, which are visible across the whole moon, seem to originate from debris spewed from the Orientale basin, a 930 - kilometer - wide bowl in the moon's southern hemisphere that formed about 3.8 billion years ago.

Such a voyage is a straight shot westward and would take about 3 weeks of daytime sailing at typical Viking ship speeds (which, for the uninformed, is about 11 kilometers per hour).

The quantum link remained intact over a separation of 1,200 kilometers between the two cities — about 10 times farther than ever before.

The spacecraft made its 127th and final close approach to Titan on April 21 at 11:08 p.m. PDT (2:08 a.m. EDT on April 22), passing at an altitude of about 608 miles (979 kilometers) above the moon's surface.

* The earthquake struck around 10 P.M. local time about 50 kilometers east of Oklahoma City, and was felt from Saint Louis to Dallas.

And unlike large land mammals in the region, whose dispersal northward was blocked by two broad rivers, these semiaquatic otters and their kin were able to spread unhindered; fossils of a similar species from approximately the same era have been unearthed at another site about 1400 kilometers to the northeast.

Remains of Birka lie on the island of Björkö, about 30 kilometers west of present - day Stockholm.

In a secluded stretch of desert about 300 kilometers south of Cairo, hundreds of bodies lie buried in the sand.

A model of the flows in Earth's mantle below North America, developed by the scientists, reveals that the mantle material below 200 kilometers flows westward at a velocity of about 4 millimeters per year.

The solar wind is a stream of electrically conducting gas continuously blowing from the Sun's surface into space at about one million miles (1.6 million kilometers) per hour.

From there they built a convincing case that Sagittarius A * was in fact a black hole — the biggest one in the galaxy, with a mass 4.3 million times that of the sun and a diameter of about 25 million kilometers.

An area with more than 20 meters of horizontal displacement, that is, four times larger than those detected on land, stretches several tens of kilometers long along the trench; the largest amount reaches about 24 meters toward east - southeast just above the hypocenter.

During its mission of exploration, Juno will circle the Jovian world 37 times, soaring low over the planet's cloud tops — as close as about 2,600 miles (4,100 kilometers).

«It became apparent that the lower part of the cratonic root was shifted by about 850 kilometers.»

«It's about two orders of magnitude faster if measured by the number of kilometers a species would have to move,» said P. David Polly, a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at Indiana University.

Those pictures, some of which are sharp enough to spot features 10 centimeters across, were taken by the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, which has been orbiting the comet (seen here in July from a distance of about 160 kilometers) for more than a year now.

Fossils of the other new species, found in rocks of a similar age a few dozen kilometers away, suggest that creature — dubbed Vilevolodon, roughly from the Latin for «toothed glider» — was about as large as a midsized mouse.

Correlations among the three data sets revealed that temperature deep in the mantle varied between around 1,300 and 1,550 degrees Celsius underneath about 61,000 kilometers of ridge terrain.