Crazy Names: The Solar System's Nomenclature Wars

You might be surprised to learn that the outskirts of the solar system are loaded with Plutinos, Centaurs, cubewanos and EKOs. Astronomers didn’t even know this a decade ago. In fact until 1992 they hadn’t even invented three of the terms. | Now it seems they don’t have enough of these crazy names. — Robert Roy Britt
Crazy Names: The Solar System’s Nomenclature Wars (Yahoo/Space)

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