what is the distance between Mt.Vesuvius and the city of Pompeii?
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not much... I've been there and it seems to me Pompeii is almost at the foot of Mt.Vesuvius.
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edit: (sorry hehe)\nthey'd be 500 miles apart...\n\nuse the pythagorean theorem...\n\nat 3 pm, one would be 300 miles west and the other would be 400 miles north...\n\nto get the distance between them (x):\n\nx=square root of 300*300 + 400*400\nx=500
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An odometer for measuring distance is described by Vitruvius around 27 and 23 BC. The actual invention may have been by Archimedes during the First Punic War. Hero of Alexandria describes a similar device in chapter 34 of his Dioptra. The device was also invented in ancient China by Zhang Heng (78 – 139).\n\nThe odometer of Vitruvius was based on chariot wheels of 4 feet (1.2 m) diameter turning 400 times in one Roman mile (about 1400 m). For each revolution a pin on the axle engaged a 400 tooth cogwheel thus turning it one complete revolution per mile. This engaged another gear with holes along the circumference, where pebbles (calculus) were located, that were to drop one by one into a box. The distance travelled would thus be given simply by counting the number of pebbles. Whether this instrument was ever built at the time is disputed. Leonardo da Vinci tried to build it according to the description but failed. In modern times, however, Andre Sleeswyk was able to make a working model using gears similar to the Antikythera mechanism as opposed to the traditional cogwheel.\n\nThe odometer as used in most modern systems, where separate gears control each digit, was invented by William Clayton with help from Orson Pratt. Clayton, a Mormon Pioneer, developed the odometer (dubbed the "roadometer") to keep track of wheel revolutions on the pioneer carts. The odometer had multiple gears, including one which turned every quarter-mile and one which turned every ten miles.
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Distance: 1 MI  /  1.61 KM E
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6 and one-half days if you calculate from New York, New York to Verdun, France. If it is from another location in the United States, you need to calculate it from another city in the United States. You did not give an exact city in the United States or which America you were talking about. I have given you all the information you need to help you out in the websites listed below. Good luck!
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Depends on which eruption you're talking about. \nThe most famous eruption, which covered Pompeii in 79 A.D., deposited ash in a 186 square mile radius. \n\nFrom Wikipedia's entry on Vesuvius:\nVesuvius has erupted repeatedly in recorded history, most famously in 79 and subsequently in 472, 512, in 1631, six times in the 18th century, eight times in the 19th century (notably in 1872), and in 1906, 1929, and 1944. There has been no eruption since then. The eruptions vary greatly in severity but are characterised by explosive outbursts of the kind dubbed Plinian after the Roman writer who observed the AD 79 eruption. On occasion, the eruptions have been so large that the whole of southern Europe has been blanketed by ashes; in 472 and 1631, Vesuvian ashes fell on Constantinople (now known as Istanbul), over 1,000 miles away. The volcano has been quiescent since 1944.
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Rome and Vactican City?
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Supervolcanoes are volcanic eruptions where more than 1000 cubic kilometers of material is extruded. As a comparison, the Mount Helens eruption amounted to 2.3 cubic kms.\n\nThe following locations are known to be supervolcanoes:\n\n- Lake Toba, Sumatra, Indonesia - 75,000 years ago (2,800 km³)\n- Yellowstone, United States - 2.2 million years ago (2500 km³) and 640,000 years ago (1000 km³)\n-La Garita Caldera, Colorado, United States - 27.8 million years ago (over 5,000 km³)\n-Bruneau-Jarbidge, Idaho, United States - 10-12 million years ago (responsible for the Ashfall Fossil Beds 1600 km to the east)
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Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located 96 miles (154 km) south of the city of Seattle and 53 miles (85 km) northeast of Portland, Oregon. The mountain, part of the Cascade Range, takes its English name from the British diplomat Lord St Helens, who was a friend of George Vancouver, an explorer who made a survey of the area in the late 18th century. Mount St. Helens is a part of the Pacific Ring of Fire that includes over 160 active volcanoes. This volcano is well known for its ash explosions and pyroclastic flows.-
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Okay...well you have to check out this interactive link on the discovery channel's website.\nhttp://kids.discovery.com/games/pompeii/pompeii.html\nIt's pretty cool and informative.  It should tell you what you need to know.\n\nHere are some other resources:\nhttp://www.brookes.ac.uk/geology/8361/1997/ellie.html\nhttp://www.vesuvioinrete.it/e_index.htm\nhttp://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/img_vesuvius.html
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The aphelion. Minimum distance is the perihelion.
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The distance is around 4750 miles.\n\nBirmingham is a city in the state of Alabama in the US.\nand Macedonia is a city in the state of Sao Paolo in Brazil.
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The distance from Earth to Venus ranges from 41 million to 258 million km depending on where each is in its own orbit. Venus' gravitational pull is .9 g of 1 Earth g.
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The average distance is 238,855 miles (384,400 km). \n\nHowever, because its orbit is not circular, the distance varies between perigee (225,700 miles, or 363,300 km) and apogee (252,000 miles, or 405,500 km).
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1.)  "A third way to determine the world's highest mountain is to measure the distance from the center of the earth to the peak. Using this method, Chimborazo in the Andes triumphs. Although it stands but 20,561 feet (6,267 meters) above sea level, its peak is the farthest from the earth's center."\n\nhttp://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/BeataUnke.shtml\n\n2.)  i'll divide one AU (149,597,870.691 KM) by the speed of light (1,079,252,848.8 km/h), which comes to 0.1386 hours or approx 8 minuets and 20 secs.  Just my best guess.\n\n3.)  30,000 volts\n\nwww.liboatingworld.com/archive/2004/11/LIBW/LIBW_21.pdf
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The Italian peninsula has about twice the area of the state of New York. It is about 700 miles long, with an average width of 100 miles in central and southern Italy. In the great plain of the Po River, just south of the Alps, the breadth is about 350 miles.
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Per Wikipedia.org:\n\n"Most of the archeological digs at the site only extend down to the street level of the 79 volcanic event. Deeper digs in older part of Pompeii and core samples of nearby drillings have exposed layers of jumbled sediment that suggest that other events hit the city before the famed volcano, as three sheets of sediment have been found on top of the lava bedrock that lies below the city. Mixed in with the sediment, archeologists have found bits of animal bone, pottery shards and bits of plants. Using carbon dating, the oldest layer has been placed as 8th century BC, about the time that the city was founded. The other two layers are separated from the other layers by well developed soil layers or Roman pavement and were laid down in the 4th century BC and 2nd century BC. The theory behind the layers of jumbled sediment is large landslides, perhaps triggered by extended rainfall. (Senatore, et al., 2004)\n\nDuring early excavations of the site, occasional voids in the ash layer were found that contained human remains. Giuseppe Fiorelli had the idea of filling the empty spaces with plaster. What resulted were highly accurate and eerie forms of the doomed Pompeiani who failed to escape, in their last moment of life (see [1], [2], [3]). For some of them the expression of terror is quite clearly visible.\nVictims of the eruption\nEnlarge\nVictims of the eruption\n\nGeologists have used the magnetic characteristics of rocks and debris found in Pompeii to estimate the temperature of the pyroclastic flow that buried the city. When molten rock solidifies, magnetic minerals in the rock record the direction of Earth's magnetic field. If the material is heated above a certain temperature, known as the Curie temperature, the magnetic field may be modified or completely reset.\n\nAnalysis of over 200 volcanic rocks and pieces of debris, such as roof tiles, suggest that the ash cloud had a temperature of 850°C when emerging from the mouth of Vesuvius. It had cooled to below 350°C by the time it reached the city. Most of the materials analyzed experienced temperatures between 240°C and 340°C. A few areas showed lower temperatures of only 180°C. It is theorized that turbulence may have mixed cool air into the ash cloud. (Cioni, et al., 2004)"