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Proper noun
(134340) Pluto
- Alternative form of Pluto (Minor-planet designation for the dwarf planet)
2007, Susan D. Kern et al., “Grazing Occultation reveals Gravity Wave Breaking in Pluto's High Atmosphere”, in DPS Meeting Abstracts, volume 39, American Astronomical Society:Occultation observations of the star P445.3 (2UCAC 25823784; McDonald & Elliot 2000, AJ 120, 1599) by (134340) Pluto on 2007 March 18.453 UT were simultaneously collected in visible and H-band wavelengths from the 6.5-m MMT (Mt. Hopkins) in Arizona.
2011, B. A. Archinal et al., “Erratum to: Reports of the IAU Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements: 2006 & 2009”, in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, volume 110, number 4, Springer, →ISSN, page 402:The obliquities of the equators of (134340) Pluto and (134340) Pluto: I Charon to the orbit of their barycenter around the Sun are large enough that the poles they rotate about in a counterclockwise direction are on the south side of the invariable plane.
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Minor-planet designations may be written with or without parentheses.