plutino

A trans-Neptunian Kuiper belt object that orbits the Sun in the same time period as Pluto, exactly two orbits for every three orbits that Neptune makes. Too small to be considered planets, plutinos make up approximately one fourth of the Kuiper Belt objects.

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From the terrace road along the shore, Via Plutino, beauties and glories indescribable lie before one at every turn of the head.

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I could have desired no happier incident for the close of my journey; by lucky chance this visit to the museum had been postponed till the last morning, and, as I idled through the afternoon about the Via Plutino, my farewell mood was in full harmony with that in which I had landed from Naples upon the Calabrian shore.

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