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website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for Pinetta:
36.774315, -76.237994
Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
We found three communities that are also named Pinetta.
There is one other community in Virginia that is also named Pinetta.
Beyond Virginia, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Virginia ...
Gloucester County
This Pinetta is located in Gloucester County and lies 49 miles [78.9 km]<1> to the north northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gloucester County community of Pinetta.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Madison County
This Pinetta is located in Madison County and lies 590 miles [949.5 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Pinetta.
Georgia
Irwin County
This Pinetta is located in Irwin County and lies 541 miles [870.7 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Irwin County community of Pinetta.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Pinetta ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Pinetta to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Pinetta and extending to:
Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 84 miles [135.2 km]<1> to the northwest (NW). If you could drive a straight line from Pinetta to Richmond, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 152 miles [244.6 km] to the north northwest (NNW). Driving would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 9 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,953 miles [9,580.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,646 miles [10,695.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,528 miles [7,287.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Pinetta) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<3>
The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Pinetta to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Pinetta. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.7743, Longitude: -76.2380 In this case, the coordinates for Pinetta have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.55 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.728 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.194 degrees.