Re: Planetary Linguistics

["Dan Tilque"]

phoglund@xxxxxx wrote:

> Yusuf B Gursey kirjoitti:
>
>> Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
>>> with potentiaqlly new planets coming up, here's a list of
>>> names of the convential nine in various languages:
>>>
>>> http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/days.html
>>
>>
>> note that some languages use "Pluton" for "Pluto," making
>> "pluton" a bad choice for the new classification.
>
> I thought "plutino" (= a trans-Neptunian asteroid or Kuiper
> belt object orbiting the Sun parallel to Pluto) was a well-
> established term. Are they going to introduce "pluton" as a
> new generic term for these?

Plutino has a more specific meaning, as I understand it. The term
is restricted to those KBOs that are in 3:2 orbital period ratio
to Neptune. So only a subset of KBOs are plutinos.

--
Dan Tilque