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KD
(redirected from Known Distance)

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KDKingdom (Star Kingdoms game)
KDkd lang (musician)
KDKristillisdemokraatit (Finnish: Christian Democrats)
kdKilodalton
KDKnowledge Discovery
KDKnocked Down
KDKristendemokraterne (Danish political party)
KDKing Diamond (band)
KDKentucky Derby
KDKappa Delta
KDKawasaki Disease
KDKiln Dried
KDData Key (FIPS)
KDKuwaiti Dinar (unit of currency)
KDKraft Dinner
KDKennedy Disease
KDKatamari Damacy (video game)
KDCost of Debt
KDKeep Driving (mechanical fault finding for intermittent faults)
KDKnown Distance
KDKomodo Dragon
KDKeyed Differently (locksmithing)
kdKristdemokratiska Partiet (Swedish political party)
KDKnee-Disarticulation (amputation)
KDKings Destroy (grafitti crew)
KDKitchen Duty
KDKael Drakkal (Everquest, gaming)
KDKerrville Division (Kerrville Veterans Hospital, Kerrville, TX)
KDKnown Depredator
KDKey and Developmental
KdDissociate Constant (receptor affinity in pharmacology, chemistry)
KDKwikDeath (CounterStrike gaming clan)
KDKnown Delinquent
KDKept Daughter (adoption)
KDKorgorian Delphic
KDKmecka Družba (Slovenia)


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And sometimes I think the essential precursor to Tufte is Charles and Ray Eames' 1968 film Powers of Ten--which turns all of us into time-space travelers moving lyrically through the beautiful imagery of the "new physics," from a view of earth from the farthest known distance in space to the pulsating nucleus of a carbon atom.
To us, those stars will be burning orbs of gas, of known distance and chemical composition.
First, the cluster's known distance from Earth made it easy to calculate the intrinsic brightness, and thus the mass, of candidate dwarfs within it.
 
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