For them, culturally, "Egypt was a planetary distance from the small villages of the Druze."

I was asleep when the alarm went off that announced planetary distance.

He said, "We are within three standard planetary distances of it.

According to his instruments, they were in motion, and already several planetary distances apart.

"But this level of deceleration would be illegal within four planetary distances."

He knew that it was not much in planetary distance, but it was very far indeed for an ordinary walk.

At planetary distances, light takes an appreciable time to reach.

If you are accustomed only to planetary distances, you may find it difficult to appreciate how large.

Its distance is terrific, even as planetary distances go.

But one Heechee wearing the appropriate metal-mesh helmet could "hear" the emotions of others, even at planetary distances.