Pltuoids = Pluto like Planets
Posted on June 22, 2008 at 9:04 am.
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The name Plutoid was proposed by the members of the IAU Committee on Small Body Nomenclature (CSBN), accepted by the Board of Division III,as a name for transneptunian dwarf planets similar to Pluto. Plutoids are celestial bodies in orbit around the Sun at a distance greater than that of Neptune that have sufficient mass for their self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that they assume a hydrostatic equilibrium (near-spherical) shape, and that have not cleared the neighbourhood around their orbit. The two known and named plutoids are Pluto and Eris. The IAU has been responsible for naming planetary bodies and their satellites since the early 1900s.
Image Credit:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pluto_system_2006.jpg
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