Traveling at a 1000 kms per second, the shockwaves would reach earth in about a day and a half.
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The Games were organized and controlled by the city of Elis, 48 kms (30 miles) to the north of Olympia.
It was the second largest of its kind in the UK, covering about 1, 600 sq kms with a population of 14, 000.
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"I made a counter-attack after 50 kms and luckily the peloton didn't chase me and I opened a 15-minute lead, " he said.
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Google Maps, for what it is worth, places the nearest road to the spot Apple picks for the town as being 141 kms from downtown Mount Isa.
Many Caribbean countries object, too, to Venezuela's claim to the islet of Aves some 300 miles (480 kms) north of its coast, which hugely expands its claims for fishing grounds.
If you really want to get away from the glitz, but not the glamour, than the Al Maha Desert Resort and Spa, approximately 40 kms from downturn Dubai, is the spot.
They extract the lumps that yield 165, 000 barrels of liquid fuels a day, from high-octane airplane petrol to superclean diesel for cars, at Sasol's big Secunda plant, 80 kms southeast of Johannesburg.
SingTel would rescue some of its pride, and get a share of Time dotCom, which has laid 3, 600 kms. of optical fiber through the length and breadth of peninsular Malaysia -- Singapore's hinterland.
At some 2.7 kms in diameter (or some nine Queen Elizabeth 2 ship-lengths in size), 1998 QE2 is due to make its latest closest approach to earth at 1:59 Pacific Daylight Time (4:59 EDT) today.
In the meantime it set up a refinery, about two kms from the forest, where it could process 1 million tons of aluminum per year and was in the process of expanding that capacity to 6 million tons.
The land-based anti-missile rocket is to be launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific in hopes of destroying a modified Minuteman missile fired into space 20 minutes earlier from Vandenberg Air Force Base, 4, 300 miles (6, 880 kms) away in California.
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The last time it got within 15 million kms of earth was in 1975, he says and adds that the next time it will get closer than present will be in 2221, and then only by a few hundred thousand kms.
Or so says David Eichler, lead author of a forthcoming Astrophysical Journal Letters paper positing that a sun-grazing comet roughly the size of Hale-Bopp (with a nucleus some 30 kms in diameter), could trigger cosmic ray-generating shockwaves large enough to initiate a global electromagnetic Armageddon.
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The risk of loss of lives and economic disaster in the southern Mediterranean is high due to strong population density along its coasts: around 150 million people concentrated in 46, 000 kms of coastline, 110 million of them living in cities bordering the sea and some 200 million tourists visiting the area every year.
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