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Definition of Kiloparsecs
1. kiloparsec [n] - See also: kiloparsec
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kiloparsecs
Literary usage of Kiloparsecs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd (1922)
"The clusters are widely scattered, and their center of diffusion is about twenty
kiloparsecs on the Galactic plane toward the region of Scorpio-Sagittarius. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"... galaxy consists of two double sources: an extended pair separated by a distance
of 240 kilo- parsecs and covering a spread of at least 600 kiloparsecs, ..."
3. First Workshop on Grand Unification: New England Center, University of New by Paul H. Frampton, Sheldon L. Glashow, Asim Yildiz (1980)
"From the halo of Andromeda, 650 kiloparsecs distant, we would expect a photon
flux 4 n[modal 1] . ..."
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