plutoid

Scientific  

/ plo̅o̅′toid′ /

1. A dwarf planet that orbits the sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune.

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Example Sentences

We’ll be updating the blog with the news from Nasa, analysis from its scientists, and all things Plutonian and plutoid.

From The Guardian

We’ll be updating the blog with the news from Nasa, analysis from its scientists, and all things Plutonian and plutoid.

From The Guardian

To others, it is the first example of the plutoid category of trans-Neptunian objects.

From Nature

Or perhaps that should be double plutoid system.

From Nature

It’s a dwarf planet or a minor planet or a planetoid, or, most insultingly, a plutoid.

From Time