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By the end of his circumnavigation, Eruç had set several ocean rowing world records including the first person to row three oceans, [6] the first rower to cross the Indian Ocean from Australia to mainland Africa (in two segments), [7] the longest distance rowed across the Indian Ocean, [8] and the longest distance rowed across the Atlantic ...
First flyby. Distance of 860 kilometres (530 mi). USSR 21 February 1989 Neptune: Voyager 2: First flyby. Distance of 40,000 kilometres (25,000 mi). USA 25 August 1989 Moon: Hiten: First lunar probe launched by a country other than the USA or USSR. Japan 18 March 1990 951 Gaspra: Galileo: First asteroid flyby. Distance of 1,600 kilometres (990 ...
Top row: Mars (left), Mercury (right); bottom row: Moon (left), Pluto (center), and Haumea (right), to scale. The megametre (SI symbol: Mm) is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1 000 000 meters (10 6 m). To help compare different orders of magnitude, this section lists lengths starting at 10 6 m (1 Mm or 1,000 km).
In running events up to 200 m in distance and in horizontal jump events, wind assistance is permitted only up to 2.0 m/s. In decathlon or heptathlon, average wind assistance of less than 2.0 m/s is required across all applicable disciplines; and maximum of 4.0 m/s in any one event. As an exception, according to rule 36.2, specific event ...
A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row in the 1960s. Now, more than five decades later, the world’s longest ...
Distance walked per month: 520 miles (840 km) Details: Avdhesh Sharma walked from Ladakh to Kanyakumari, a journey he called the L2K Hike. He is the first person to hike from Thang, Ladakh (the northernmost village in India) to Cape Comorin .
The Minnesota Twins scored a 6-5 win over the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday, extending the franchise's longest winning streak since 2008 to nine games. On Wednesday, the Twins successfully pushed ...
An 88-year-old former boxer has been found not guilty in a retrial of a 1966 quadruple murder in Japan, ending his ordeal as the longest-serving death row inmate ever.