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.