Примеры употребления для NEPTUNIAN
1. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune would be gas–giant planets and everything more distant than that would be trans–Neptunian planets.
2. Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute, in Boulder, Colorado, said that it would be better to call Pluto, Xena and Sedna ice dwarfs than trans–Neptunian planets because it is more descriptive.
3. The International Astronomical Union, which makes the decision on what is a planet, considers Xena a trans–Neptunian object, meaning its orbit crosses that of Neptune, just as Pluto‘s does.
4. Suddenly there was reason to reclassify Pluto as a member of this new society, which quickly became known as "trans–Neptunian objects" or "Kuiper Belt objects," in honor of Gerard Kuiper (1'05–1'73), who had predicted a vast zone of small bodies in the environs of Pluto.