LELAND'S JOURNAL

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Facts and Figures from around the Farm

May/June 1997

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Number of hours Steve Fossett was aloft
in his attempt to circle the globe by balloon:

147

Average miles per hour of Fossett's balloon over land:

35

Over the ocean:

50

Number of countries that granted Fossett flyover permission:

43

Number that didn't:

5



Number of Nobel Prize winners who conducted
their research at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center:

3

Length, in miles, of the linear accelerator:

2

Average miles per hour that an electron travels in the accelerator:

Just under 669,600,000

Average miles per hour vehicles travel as they pass over SLAC
on Highway 280:

66.07



Number of bird species on campus:

120

Number of tree species on campus:

363

Number of campus tree species that bear edible fruit:

28

Number of palm trees on Palm Drive:

163

SOURCES:(1) Steve Fossett; (2) SLAC public affairs; California Department of Transportation; (3) Center for Conservation Biology.

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