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scattered disk

scattered disk is the alternative spelling of scattered disc.

Meaning of scattered disc

Proper noun

the scattered disc

  1. A trans-Neptunian region of the Solar System that overlaps the outer edge of the Kuiper belt, but also extends far beyond it, and is populated sparsely by small Solar System bodies.
    • There are presently about 200 known objects in the scattered disc, but some of their orbits are rather uncertain. Obviously, most of these objects are observed at perihelion passage, because their semimajor axes might be as large as hundreds of AU (where they would not be observable); if...2003, B. Bertotti, Paolo Farinella, David Vokrouhlický, Physics of the Solar System, Springer (Kluwer Academic), page 409

Questions about scattered disk

What is scattered disk the alternative spelling of?
Scattered disk is the alternative spelling of scattered disc.

Words near scattered disk in the dictionary

  1. scatterbrains
  2. scattered
  3. scattered disc
  4. scattered disc object
  5. scattered disc objects
  6. scattered disk
  7. scattered disk object
  8. scattered disk objects
  9. scattered Kuiper belt object
  10. scattered Kuiper belt objects
  11. scattered shower

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