Sentences with word «plutoid»

Also because of this change, there is a new category of small planets known as plutoids.

Since then, astronomers have found other plutoids, Marsden says.

The outer planets show evidence of interaction with plutoids.

So far there are only two known plutoids — Pluto and Eris, the latter of which enjoyed a fleeting moment of fame as the tenth planet.

According to the IAU, dozens more plutoids may yet be identified, but hundreds of smaller bodies seem likely to remain burdened with the designation «transneptunian object.»

After two years of debate, the IAU announced in June that some bodies in this distant realm would be called plutoids, in honor of their prototype.

These images show the first plutoids.

The picture shows that the orbits of the two, new plutoids — Pluto and Eris (originally called 2003 UB313, as marked here)-- in red.

Although there is some debate within the science community as to whether Pluto should be classified as a Planet or a dwarf planet, the International Astronomical Union has decided on the term plutoid as a name for dwarf planets like Pluto.

In addition to Pluto itself, the remote dwarf planets Eris and Makemake qualify as plutoids, as does the recently named Haumea.

So far, astronomers have named one other plutoid — the dwarf planet Eris, whose discovery in 2003 sparked the controversy over whether it was correct to continue calling Pluto a planet.

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I suggest classifying all Kuiper Belt objects as «Plutoids,» with Pluto the archetype of the whole population.

The group defined a plutoid as an object orbiting the sun at an average distance greater than Neptune's, massive enough to assume a nearly spherical shape (as planets do) but not massive enough to clear its orbital path of other bodies (as planets also do).

«Plutoids or hemorrhoids, whatever they call it — this is irrelevant.»

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The official definition of a plutoid is a round celestial body in an orbit around the sun beyond Neptune's that has not cleared its orbital path of other bodies.

In a sign that Pluto's second - class citizenship is here to stay, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) at a meeting this week in Oslo, Norway, declared that dwarf planets will now be called «plutoids.»

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Most lie beyond the orbit of Neptune, making them plutoids, a subcategory named for the most famous member of their group.

The IAU more recently deemed Pluto and two newfound bodies to be «plutoids,» bright dwarf planets that circulate mostly outside Neptune's orbit.

Since its discovery, the menagerie of big oddities in the outer solar system has expanded to include Eris and Makemake, a plutoid discovered in 2005.

Objects in this new category would be called «plutoids.»

This sets these plutoids apart from another solar system dwarf planet called Ceres, It resides in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), plutoids are dwarf planets that orbit the sun beyond the orbit of Neptune.

The additional classification as a plutoid makes clear where in the solar system Pluto and other objects like it reside.

Triton, the largest moon of Neptune, is likely a captured plutoid, and it is even possible that the odd tilt of Uranus on its axis is due to a collision with a plutoid.

In addition, «it was decided that, for naming purposes, any Solar System body having (a) a semimajor axis greater than that of Neptune, and (b) an absolute magnitude brighter than H = +1 (magnitude will, for the purpose of naming, be considered to be a plutoid,» so that many large and relatively round Edgeworth - Kuiper ice bodies may eventually be designated as plutoids, including 2004 XR190.

On June 11, 2008, On August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted at the meeting of its Executive Committee to establish bright «dwarf planets beyond the orbit of Neptune as a new class of substellar objects in the Solar System called «plutoids» (IAU press release).

Since Make - make orbits the Sun beyond the orbit of Neptune, the IAU also assigned it membership to a class of substellar objects in the Solar System recently designated as «plutoids» (IAU press release).

In addition, Ceres» light spectrum suggests that it may have ammonium - rich clay at the surface, which would fit the expected ammonia - rich composition of large, differentiated substellar objects in the outer Solar System, including the «plutoids» defined on June 11, 2008 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) as a new class of bright «dwarf planets beyond the orbit of Neptune (IAU press release).