dwarf planet

That craft is New Horizons, a deep space probe heading to Pluto to study its moons and the dwarf planet itself.

这具飞行器叫新地平线号。这具深空探测器正飞往冥王星去研究这颗矮行星以及它的卫星。

pluto is an ice dwarf planet.

冥王星是一颗冰矮行星。

What is a dwarf planet?

甚麽是矮行星?

The moon is the smallest around the icy dwarf planet.

这是目前为止发现的围绕这颗冰雪覆盖的矮行星的最小的卫星。

The new world-dubbed LHS 1140b-is ten times closer to its parent star than Earth but because a red dwarf is far cooler than our own yellow dwarf, the planet still sits in the habitable zone.

这一新发现的行星被称为LHS1140b，与其母星的距离是地球与太阳距离的十分之一，但由于红矮星比身为黄矮星的地球要冷得多，所以该行星还是位于宜居带。

The New Horizons spacecraft was set to make its closest approach of the dwarf planet on Tuesday, and while scientists wait for confirmation of that flyby--and the 16 months worth of data that it will bring 。

按计划设定，新视野号飞行探测器会在周二近距离飞掠这颗矮行星，届时将向在地面等待确认飞掠的科学家传回历史16个月所收集到的数据。

One was a decision to name Pluto a " dwarf planet "

其中一个重要的决定是将冥王星更名为 “ 矮星行 ”

Transits of dwarf stars provide bigger signals, because the planet blots out proportionally more star's disk.

因为这种行星遮盖了更多的天文坐标,因此凌日的矮星会发出比较强烈的信号.

the teacher showed us a list of dwarf planet candidates.

老师给我们看了一份矮行星候选天体列表。

This is actually rather fitting, since Haumea is a rather "gifted" and unique dwarf planet.

其实这十分贴切，因为它的确是一颗非常独特的矮行星。

One was a decision to name Pluto a "dwarf planet".

其中一个重要的决定是将冥王星更名为“矮星行”。

mankind does not even have a term for the type of smoldering brown dwarf planet x represents.

人类甚至对X星所呈现的闷燃棕矮星都没有一个术语。

the dwarf planet ceres, once considered the largest asteroid, has a diameter roughly one-fourth that of the moon.

这颗曾被视作最大小行星的矮行星谷神星，直径约为月球的四分之一。

It is just weeks since Pluto was redefined a dwarf planet.

自冥王星被重新定义为矮行星不过几周.

between the orbits of mars and jupiter lies the asteroid belt, which includes the dwarf planet ceres.

在火星和木星的轨道间分布着小行星带，之中有一颗矮行星谷神星。

After a year in orbit around Vesta, Dawn will travel on to the dwarf planet Ceres.

在环绕灶神星的轨道运行一年后，“黎明”号将飞向矮行星谷神星（Ceres）。

The next year, the International Astronomical Union placed Pluto in a new category, "dwarf planet," because in its view, a full-fledged planet must be the gravitational bully of its orbit, and Pluto was not.

第二年，国际天文学联合会（International Astronomical Union）就把冥王星归入名为“矮行星”的一个新类别，因为在该学会看来，一颗名副其实的行星必须能够清空轨道上的其他天体，而冥王星做不到这一点。

Is it an asteroid, dwarf planet, comet or quasar?

它是小行星，白矮星，彗星还是类星体？

dawn's mission will take it to the asteroid vesta in 2011 and 2012, and to the dwarf planet ceres in 2015.

曙光号将在2011和2012年位于灶神（Vesta）小行星，2015年达到矮行星谷神星（Ceres）。

In 1930 astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered the dwarf planet Pluto while looking at photographs of the night sky.

1930年，天文学家克莱德汤博在研究夜空照片的时候发现了矮行星冥王星。

In 2005, he made a key discovery that led scientists to reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet.

2005年，他的一项重要发现引导科学家们将冥王星重新归类为矮行星。

pluto is a dwarf planet by the above scientific definition, as are one or more recently discovered large trans- neptunian objects.

按上面的科学定义，冥王星是一个矮行星，最近发现的一个或更多的大海外天体也是矮行星。

chad trujillo discovered a distant dwarf planet.

查德·特鲁希略发现了一颗遥远的矮行星。

scientists discovered that the lonely pluto is a dwarf planet.

科学家们发现，孤独的冥王星是一颗矮行星。

Dawn will spend one year orbiting Vesta, then travel to the dwarf planet Ceres.

“黎明号”将花一年时间绕灶神星运行，然后前往矮行星谷神星（Ceres）。

eris is real, but it is a dwarf planet similar to pluto that will remain in the outer solar system;

ERIS倒是真实存在的，但它也只是一颗在太阳系外围活动的，类似于冥王星这样的矮行星。

It is just weeks since Pluto was redefined as a dwarf planet.

冥王星被重新定义为矮行星仅仅过去几周.

One was a decision to name Pluto are a dwarf Planet.

一个是冥王星被命名为矮行星。

scientists have discovered several dwarf planet candidates in our solar system.

科学家们在我们的太阳系中发现了几个矮行星候选天体。