Brown had been finding similar objects in the Kuiper Belt the massive band of comet-like bodies that circles the solar system for years. 布朗多年来在柯伊伯带发现了类似的星体&巨大的柯伊伯带充满了似彗星并绕太阳系运行的天体。
Instead of a planet, it may be called a Kuiper Belt object in the future. 将来它可能会被叫做柯伊伯带天体,而不是行星。
"It's pretty clear, if we discovered Pluto today, knowing what we know about other objects in the Kuiper Belt, we wouldn't even consider it a planet," Brown said. “很明显,如果冥王星是在知道了柯依伯带存在其他天体的今天发现的,我们甚至不会认定它是颗行星,”布朗说。
Astronomers call the area beyond Pluto the Kuiper Belt ( 3). 天文学家把超出冥王星的区域称为“柯伊伯带”。
The Jupiter-Saturn region would have been just the right temperature for such a comet, which is much closer to the sun than the Kuiper Belt or Oorl Cloud where most comets probably formed. 木星一土星区域有适合这种慧星存在的合适温度。它距离太阳比古比皮带和奥尔特云都要近。这两者是大多数慧星可能形成的地方。
Yet, it may not be considered as a new planet of our solar system but is a Kuiper belt object. 不过,它并不算是一个新行星,而只是一个凯伯带天体。
Most astronomers believe there are many more objects to be discovered in the distant Kuiper Belt. 大部分天文学家相信,在遥远的柯伊伯带,有更多天体会被发现。
Astronomers won't have to wait that long to firm up their understanding of the outer solar system, though: Sicardy and his team already have occultations in hand from other Kuiper Belt objects. 但天文学家们不必等那久来证实他们对太阳系外层的理解。斯卡德和他的团队已经掌握了其它柯伊伯带星体的掩星。
Distribution properties and dynamical evolution of kuiper belt objects Kuiper带天体的分布及动力学演化
In Kuiper belt of the outer solar system, many objects have the 3:2 mean motion resonance with Neptune. 在太阳系最外层的Kuiper带中,有许多天体处于海王星3:2平运动共振中。
This paper induce orbital distribution properties of Kuiper belt objects simply, discuss dynamical evolution mechanisms existed currently to explain the distributions of the Kuiper belt objects and collision evolution of primal Kuiper belt objects. 本文对Kuiper带天体的轨道分布特点进行简要归纳,着重讨论目前存在的几种解释Kuiper带天体分布的动力学演化机制,以及原始Kuiper带天体的碰撞演化。
Four Jovian planets and the Kuiper belt ( including Pluto). 四个类木行星和柯伊伯带(包括冥王星)
A new subject of the solar system dynamics, the orbit dynamics of the Kuiper Belt Objects, is reviewed in this paper. 主要评述太阳系动力学研究的一个新方向&Kuiper带的轨道动力学。
Dynamical Evolution of Kuiper Belt Objects Little Dolphin Kuiper带小天体动力演化
Because their orbits are doubted to be scattered by the Neptune, so they are called scattered Kuiper belt objects. 因怀疑它们的轨道是被海王星引力散射所致,故命名为散射Kuiper带天体。