Sentence examples for five times closer from inspiring English sources

An international team of researchers says it came five times closer than our current nearest neighbour - Proxima Centauri.

BBC reports that the red dwarf passed through the Oort cloud (pictured) at the fringes of our solar system about 70,000 years ago, bringing it five times closer than any current star.

The planet is also nearly thirteen times hotter than Jupiter and orbits five times closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun.

In comparison, Mercury orbits the Sun every 87.97 days at an average distance of 0.387 AU; therefore, Kepler-40b's orbit is approximately thirteen times faster than that of Mercury's and five times closer to its host star than Mercury is to the Sun.

For a national popular vote election to be as easy to switch as 2000, it would have to be two hundred times closer than the 1960 election — and, in popular-vote terms, forty times closer than 2000 itself.

It orbits its star at a dizzying pace, once every eleven days, at a distance twenty times closer than Earth is to the sun.

That will allow Nasa and everyone else to know much more about it when it comes nearly four times closer in 2018.