Chapter 23: Uranus, Neptune, and the Kuiper Belt

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ovoids

Geological feature on Uranus’s moon Miranda thought to be produced by circulation in the solid icy mantle and crust.

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occultation

The passage of a larger body in front of a smaller body.

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dwarf planets

objects that orbit the Sun and are large enough to assume a spherical shape but not large enough to have sufficient gravitational influence to absorb or otherwise clear away remaining objects orbiting nearby

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plutinos

One of the icy Kuiper Belt objects that, like Pluto, are caught in a 3:2 orbital resonance with Neptune.