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stellar magnitude

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stellar magnitude [′stel·ər ′mag·nə‚tüd]
(astronomy)
magnitude


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At its closest approach to Earth early Sunday, the asteroid will shine at a stellar magnitude of 9, about one-sixteenth the brightness of the faintest star visible without a telescope.
COSMIC CLOSE-UP ASTEROID TO WHIZ BY EARTH TONIGHT by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
In 1935, Richter dressed up the Japanese method to create an earthquake index -- a simple numerical scale much like the stellar magnitudes used by his astronomical colleagues at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
Abandoning Richter; how a white lie finally caught up with ... by Monastersky, Richard / Science News
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