The size of the ball matters, too, with greater forces exerted by larger balls, said Dr. Plant.
The size of the ball, on the other hand, has been increased by 2mm in a bid to slow the game and improve it as a spectacle.
There, on the right side of his brain, was a tumor the size of a tennis ball.
The meteor was one yard in diameter, about the size of an exercise ball, when it entered the atmosphere over eastern Pennsylvania, said Cooke.
With gastric bypass, a new stomach about the size of a golf ball is created by cutting across the top of the stomach and connecting the smaller pouch with the intestines.
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There are millions of asteroids in our solar system, and they come in all dimensions -- from the size of a beach ball to a large mountain, NASA said.
Radiation, too, should not be a problem if a newly launched meteorite is at least the size of a soccer ball.
Its leafy green head is usually 1-2 inches in diameter, roughly the size of a golf ball, but each sprout packs a potent punch of contrasting flavors.
About the size of a golf ball, it is what's known as a habitat specialist, found only in caves of a certain kind of volcanic rock along streams in southeastern Puerto Rico.
The process involved smearing hot latex on his hands and arms, allowing it to dry, and then peeling the strips off and wrapping them around the core of the ball until it reaches the requisite size and weight.
It wasn't even the cancer diagnoses, the first in 1987 and the second in 1992 when the doctor had beeped him while he was driving, and he'd pulled off and gone into a 7-Eleven to be told that he had a tumour on his left lung the size of a golf ball.
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But Tim had clearly been obsessed with the idea of taking home his own piece of Aperture Science since the MakerBot team first showed us one back at CES. The one we saw back then was roughly the size of a soccer ball, but we figured we'd start with something a bit more modest at one inch cubed.
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Try this analogy (thanks to Veritasium.com): if the Earth were the size of a basketball, the moon would be a tennis ball about 24 feet away, and the Sun would be like a house nearly two miles away.
We were a little disappointed to see how small the garlands were each ball turned out to be the size of a large marble as they had looked more substantial in the photo Ms. Parks had emailed, but we went with them anyway since they were the main item we had chosen for both fireplaces.
Her surgeon divided her stomach into two pouches, one the size of a ping-pong ball.
This theory holds that in its early history, the observable Universe underwent a period of exponential expansion, doubling in size many dozens of times, growing our observiball a tiny fraction of the size of an atomic nucleus to that of, say, a beach ball.
She was petrified when doctors found a golf-ball-size tumor near the base of her skull in June 2007.
Depending on the age, youth players should use a ball of size 4 or smaller.
Experiments measured the forces and acceleration of a regulation, adult-size-5 ball propelled repeatedly at a magnesium dummy-like head at 18 meters per second, which is considered the average speed a ball is kicked by nonprofessional players.
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