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Dwarfism is a condition of people and animals marked by unusually small size or short stature. [1] In humans, it is sometimes defined as an adult height of less than 147 centimetres (4 ft 10 in), regardless of sex; the average adult height among people with dwarfism is 120 centimetres (4 ft).
Meredith Hope Eaton Gordon (sometimes credited as Meredith Eaton-Gilden; born August 26, 1974) [1] is an American actress. She is 122 cm (4 ft 0 in) tall, [2] [3] and refers to herself as a "short-stature actress".
Court dwarf English court dwarf and jester to Charles I. [91] 1619–1682 Russia: 102cm (40 in) Hasbulla: Internet Personality: Russian social media personality. 2002 - Holy Roman Empire: 104 cm (41 in) [92] Hedsor Conrad Ernest Coppernin Court dwarf Served as a page to Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha making him the last court dwarf. [93] [94 ...
HD 189733, also catalogued as V452 Vulpeculae, is a binary star system 64.5 light-years (19.8 parsecs) away in the constellation of Vulpecula (the Fox).The primary star is suspected to be an orange dwarf star, [2] while the secondary star is a red dwarf star. [5]
Expanding it to all children whose height was below the third percentile would create 90,000 new customers and US$10 billion in revenue. [10] In the early 1990s, they paid two US charities, the Human Growth Foundation and the MAGIC Foundation , to measure the height of thousands of American children in schools and public places, and to send ...
The Hertzsprung–Russell diagram showing the location of main sequence dwarf stars and white dwarfs. A dwarf star is a star of relatively small size and low luminosity. Most main sequence stars are dwarf stars. The meaning of the word "dwarf" was later extended to some star-sized objects that are not stars, and compact stellar remnants that ...
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The revised Yerkes Atlas system (Johnson & Morgan 1953) [11] listed 12 K-type dwarf spectral standard stars, however not all of these have survived to this day as standards. The "anchor points" of the MK classification system among the K-type main-sequence dwarf stars, i.e. those standard stars that have remain unchanged over the years, are: [12]