plutino

Meaning

Noun

Any planetoid in the Kuiper belt whose orbit, like that of Pluto, has a resonance of 3:2 with that of Neptune.

Origin

From Pluto + -ino, meaning "little Pluto" (compare neutrino); coined by David C. Jewitt, et al.

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