新名詞 Plutoid

mca

http://astronomynow.com/080612Plutoassignedplutoidtag.html

Any idea to translate this term into Chinese?

ambcyli

Official press release by IAU: click here

This term actually appeared in 2006 (before re-definition of planet), but is just adopted now...
I hope that " Plutoid" will be translated as 類冥天體 or 類冥矮行星, to correspond with the present terms 類地/類木行星. But this is not ours to decide.

Although this is a good thing, I think IAU should spent more effort on 1)recognise Charon as a dwarf planet (also a Plutoid) and 2)lay out more standard definitions for Small Solar System Body, Asteroid, Comet, Moon etc.

[ 本帖最後由 ambcyli 於 2008-6-14 02:03 編輯 ]