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plutinos

plutinos is the plural of plutino.

Meaning of plutino

Noun

plutino (plural plutinos)

  1. Any planetoid in the Kuiper belt whose orbit, like that of Pluto, has a resonance of 3:2 with that of Neptune.
    • We present a study of the dynamical evolution of plutinos recently escaped from the resonance through numerical simulations. It was shown in previous works the existence of weakly chaotic orbits in the plutino population that diffuse very slowly finally diving into a strong chaotic region.2010, Romina P. Di Sisto, Adrián Brunini, Gonzalo C. de Elía, “The contribution of plutinos to the Centaur population”, in Julio A. Fernández, Daniela Lazzaro, Dina Prialnik, Rita Schulz, editors...

Questions about plutinos

What is plutinos the plural of?
Plutinos is the plural of plutino.

Words near plutinos in the dictionary

  1. plutes
  2. pluteus
  3. pluteuses
  4. plutey
  5. plutino
  6. plutinos
  7. pluto
  8. Pluto monkey
  9. Pluto monkeys
  10. Pluto pup
  11. Pluto pups

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