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kiloparsec [¦kil·ə′pär‚sek] (astronomy) A distance of 1000 parsecs (3260 light-years). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Pennypacker says that on the basis of observations made so far, they have calculated a "preliminary' value of the Hubble constant to be 100 kilometers per second per kiloparsec. quoted the distance to 1987A as 50 kiloparsecs or 1. It would be capable of measuring parallaxes of objects at kiloparsec distances with 10 percent accuracy. |
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