In fact they could do so at a distance of more than 65 miles.
The nation that hits the comet, at a distance of 37m miles, will gain new respect worldwide.
Regarding the relief wells, Development Driller III now is at a distance of 11, 641 feet below the seafloor.
At a distance of more than 20 light years from Earth, Gliese 581c is not exactly on the doorstep.
BJ8 sailed past the Earth at a distance of 5m kilometres (3m miles) a pretty close shave by astronomical standards.
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The officer who shot him is seen at the corner of a building, firing at a distance of not more than 10 metres.
Bluetooth is a low-cost wireless radio transmission specification for creating personal networks of up to eight devices at a distance of 10 to 100 feet.
At a distance of just 1 nanometer, the needle physically attracted the carbon monoxide molecules and pulled them to a precisely specified location on the surface.
On 15 February this year, 2012 DA14 - an asteroid as large as an Olympic swimming pool - raced past the Earth at a distance of just 27, 700km (17, 200mi).
As they announced at the meeting in San Diego, the Sloan survey team was able to pick up such a density peak at a distance of 500m light years.
It will make its closest approach to the Sun - at a distance of not much more than a million km from the Sun's surface - on 28 November.
An asteroid as large as an Olympic swimming pool has raced past the Earth at a distance of just 27, 700km (17, 200mi) - the closest ever predicted for an object of that size.
The difference between native 1080p and native 4K at six meters, however, was more marked -- it could only be described as 'subtle' at a distance of nine meters from the screen.
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If we see two people talking at a distance of around two feet from each other, we assume they are engaged in the kind of conversation only possible between those who know and trust each other.
Extrapolating from these results, they think that an orbiting zone plate measuring somewhere between 15 metres and 40 metres across will be enough to distinguish the spectrum of an Earthlike planet at a distance of 30 light-years.
Cheng says the comet is likely making its first visit to the inner solar system from the Oort cloud, a reservoir of hundreds of millions of comets encircling our solar system at a distance of about a light year.
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If Apophis passes the earth at a distance of exactly 18, 893 miles it will open a "gravitational keyhole" causing it to enter a new orbit that would put it on a direct collision course with earth seven years later.
At a distance of about 400 million light-years, NGC 6240 is a prime example of a massive galaxy in which stars are forming at an exceptionally rapid rate due to a recent collision and subsequent merger of two smaller galaxies.
Scientists have played down suggestions that there is any link between the event in the Urals and 2012 DA14, an asteroid which raced past the Earth later on Friday at a distance of just 27, 700km (17, 200 miles) - the closest ever for an object of that size.
Sonar scans done at a safe distance of 10 metres create a rough image known as a data-point cloud.
Staff from the Sea Launch company, which organised the launch, direct all missions from a support vessel that sits at a safe distance of about 6.5km uprange of the platform.
He turned with surprising grace and peered back at her from a distance of a dozen feet.
At a relatively close distance of 2.5 million light-years, Andromeda is very similar in size to our own Milky Way Galaxy.
The officers confronted Mr. Johnson, who took out his gun and pointed it at them from a distance of about eight feet, authorities said.
It estimates more than 11% of the island's 68, 900 population has put their name to the petition which calls for a ban on commercial wind turbines in any Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and a separation distance of at least 1.5km (0.9 miles) from housing.
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Ames scientists are renowned for expertise in heat shields, which is one of the most important elements needed to protect a speeding spacecraft slamming into the earth's atmosphere at the end of a long-distance space voyage.
The same approach has been used in ground-based experiments to beam one kilowatt of power over a distance of several kilometres, notes Peter Fisher, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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