(134340) Pluto

alternative 134340

1. alternativeAlternative form of Pluto (Minor-planet designation for the dwarf planet)

   Occultation observations of the star P445.3 (2UCAC 25823784; McDonald & Elliot 2000, AJ 120, 1599) by (134340) Pluto on 2007 March 18.453 UT were simultaneously collected in visible and H-band wavelengths from the 6.5-m MMT (Mt. Hopkins) in Arizona.

   2007, Susan D. Kern et al., “Grazing Occultation reveals Gravity Wave Breaking in Pluto's High Atmosphere”, in DPS Meeting Abstracts, volume 39, American Astronomical Society

   1 more example

   The obliquities of the equators of (134340) Pluto and (134340) Pluto: I Charon to the orbit of their barycenter around the Sun are large enough that the poles they rotate about in a counterclockwise direction are on the south side of the invariable plane.

   2011, B. A. Archinal et al., “Erratum to: Reports of the IAU Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements: 2006 & 2009”, in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, volume 110, number 4, Springer, →ISSN, page 402