Sentence examples for kilometer wide from inspiring English sources

"There were bodies in parking lots, in the fields; burned-out cars in an area half a kilometer wide," a fire department spokesman, Francis Boileau, told Reuters.

"More provocations in places like the Strait of Hormuz, which I believe is half a kilometer wide, actually narrower in some places, can lead to accidents.

The width of the stripe is about four times the depth of water under the transducers, so in water with 250 meters under the transducers, we map a stripe about a kilometer wide.

Astronomers are tracking an asteroid, at least 1 kilometer wide, that could hit Earth in 2028.

However, the chances of another such giant slamming into Earth (it would have to be over 1 kilometer wide to pack a global punch) in the next millennium are thought to be on the order of 1%.

Today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, members of the Cassini team describe how the features, which can stretch hundreds of kilometers, are being caused by the movement of moonlets only about 1 kilometer wide plowing through the A ring.

(Image of 18-kilometer wide asteroid Gaspra courtesy NASA).

At the center of Occator is a 9-kilometer-wide pit, and in the center of that is an uplifted dome, 2 kilometers wide and full of ringlike fractures (pictured here).

It so inundates this north-south, 48-kilometer wide desert depression that the blue sky is turned to grey, tan, and brown, vanquishing the sun's halo.

In the middle of this 150-kilometer-wide crater rises a mountain where Curiosity will be spending most of its working life.

Computer models suggest that the fragments--which range from 2 to 19 kilometers wide--were spawned when a 3-kilometer-wide projectile hit a 25-kilometer-wide asteroid.