He told the conference that his approach would pick up not only small rocky planets orbiting at great distances from their parent stars, but also planets that had been ejected from their orbits.

他在讨论会上说他的方法不仅能找到以相当距离围绕恒星转的布满岩石的小行星，还能找到远离自己轨道运行的行星。

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Particles that result from burning coal, for example, can travel great distances, but few are likely to reach Honolulu, some 2,000 miles off the mainland.

例如，由燃煤引起的微粒物质可以传播到远距离，但是极少会传到火奴鲁鲁，它离大陆约2000英里。

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Distances between the islands are not great and the sea is calm but people prefer to stick with their own kind and mixed marriages are rare.

岛屿之间的距离并不远，海洋也平静，但人们更喜欢与自己的同类在一起，异族通婚很少见。

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But unlike his 1970s counterpart, Joe routinely travels the same great distances in roughly the same time as do the world's wealthiest tycoons.

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Apart from a few large-brained species, such as humans, apes and dolphins, not many animals will do this, but Kandula did it without hesitation, fetching the box from great distances.

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There are probably many more comets than near-Earth asteroids, but Nasa points out they spend almost all of their lifetimes at great distances from the Sun and Earth, so that they contribute only about 10% to the census of larger objects that have struck the Earth.

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