Pluto and Kuiper Belt

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Pluto and Kuiper Belt
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Pluto and Charon
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Shading from Eclipses
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More moons!
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Nyx and Hydra
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The Big Plan (CKBOs SKBOs Plutinos)courtesy D.
Jewitt, UH
Red Orbits Plutinos. Blue Orbits Classical
Kuiper Belt Objects. Black Orbits SKBOs.
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Other Kuiper belt objects
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Plutinos

• A surprising result of the new observational work
  is that many of the distant objects are in or
  near the 32 mean motion resonance with Neptune.
  This means that they complete 2 orbits around the
  sun in the time it takes Neptune to complete 3
  orbits. The same resonance is also occupied by
  Pluto. To mark the dynamical similarity with
  Pluto, we have christened these objects as
  "Plutinos" (little Plutos).
• Courtesy D. Jewitt (http//www.ifa.hawaii.edu/facu
  lty/jewitt/kb.html)

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Sedna
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