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Imagine that one of Shoemaker-Levy 9's bigger pieces -- a mile or two in diameter -- is streaking in at 130,000 m.p.h., except that the target is not Jupiter but Earth. The mammoth chunk of rock and ice tears through the atmosphere and smashes into the ground with the...
It was necessary to close DeWolfe St. for thework, Culver said, because the main trunk isunusually large--the pipe has an interior diameterof six feet and an exterior diameter of eightfeet.
Humboldt is a region of hardscrabble logging towns along Highway 101 on the foggy coast of northern California. Here it is still possible to see a big truck grinding toward the Pacific Lumber mill at Scotia with a single, monstrous redwood log, 15 ft. in diameter. A tree that can...
It's also among the most puzzling. Two huge hoops -- each a few light-years in diameter -- and a brighter, smaller ring are surrounding the site of a supernova, an exploding star whose violent death was recorded by astronomers in 1987. For millenniums before the blast, Burrows and his colleagues...
Garrett's parent company, AlliedSignal, had no intention of abandoning the sale -- especially since the Chinese by then had expressed interest in purchasing as many as 500 engines over 20 years. Including service and peripherals, the company estimated the deal could gross $500 million and support 440 jobs at Garrett...