(134340) Pluto

See also: 134340 Pluto

English

Proper noun

(134340) Pluto

2. Alternative form of Pluto (Minor-planet designation for the dwarf planet)
   • 2007, Susan D. Kern et al., “Grazing Occultation reveals Gravity Wave Breaking in Pluto's High Atmosphere”, in DPS Meeting Abstracts‎^[1], volume 39, American Astronomical Society:

     Occultation observations of the star P445.3 (2UCAC 25823784; McDonald & Elliot 2000, AJ 120, 1599) by (134340) Pluto on 2007 March 18.453 UT were simultaneously collected in visible and H-band wavelengths from the 6.5-m MMT (Mt. Hopkins) in Arizona.

   • 2011, B. A. Archinal et al., “Erratum to: Reports of the IAU Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements: 2006 & 2009”, in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy‎^[2], volume 110, number 4, Springer, →ISSN, page 402:

     The obliquities of the equators of (134340) Pluto and (134340) Pluto: I Charon to the orbit of their barycenter around the Sun are large enough that the poles they rotate about in a counterclockwise direction are on the south side of the invariable plane.

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