Sentences with phrase «width of a dime»

For expert pitches where he planned to stand on small rock edges the width of a dime, normal feet were a disadvantage.

(An arcsecond is 1/3, 600 of a degree and is equivalent to the width of a dime as seen from a distance of two kilometers.)

«We, for the first time, can make deep images that resolve objects just 0.02 arcseconds across — this is a very small angle — it is like resolving the width of a dime seen from 100 miles away, or like resolving a convoy of three school busses driving together on the surface of the Moon.»