The Hindu Editorial (Celestial misfit) – Sep 19, 2018

After years of arguing over whether Pluto is a planet, in 2006 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted to remove Pluto’s planetary status. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”. Below is today’s word list-2 for The Hindu Editorial (Celestial misfit) – Sep 19, 2018.

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Today’s word list-2 for The Hindu Editorial (Celestial misfit) – Sep 19, 2018

celestial (adjective) – space, astronomical, planetary.
misfit (noun) – eccentric, oddity, deviant.
dwarf (adjective/noun) – miniature, small/little, minor/undersized.
taxonomy (noun) – classification, categorization, grouping.
ceres (noun) – a dwarf/minor planet in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
asteroid (noun) – sometimes called as minor planets, are rocky remnants (remainings)
left over from the early formation of the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago.
Xena (noun) – the (possible) tenth planet in the solar system. it is slightly bigger than Pluto.
kuiper belt (noun) -it is also known as the Edgeworth–Kuiper belt. It is a region of the Solar System that exists beyond the eight major planets, extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun. (One astronomical unit (AU) is the mean distance of Earth from the Sun: about 150 million kilometers).
go by (phrasal verb) – be known as, be called by.
rationale (noun) – reason/basis; principle.
exert (verb) – apply, employ/exercise, use.
owing to (phrase) – because of, as a result of, on account of.
collide with (verb) – crash into, impact with, bang into.
accrete (verb) – grow by gradual accumulation of something.
deem (verb) – regard as, consider; think/judge.
come up with (phrasal verb) – produce, propose, suggest.
build up (phrasal verb) – develop, expand, enlarge.
give up (phrasal verb) – forgo, abandon, stop trying.
discard (verb) – dispose of, throw away, throw out.
binary planet (noun) – double planet.
oort cloud (noun) – a shell of objects that surrounds the entire solar system far beyond the Kuiper belt. A spherical cloud of comets that orbit between about 5000 AU – about 100 times the distance between the Sun and Pluto – and 100,000 AU. This is over 1.5 light-years, 2000 times the distance from the Sun to the edge of the Kuiper Belt. (light year – a unit of astronomical length/distance equal to the distance that light travels in one year (about 9.46 trillion kilometers).
sweep (noun) – range, reach, ambit.
Occam’s razor (noun) – the problem-solving principle that the simplest solution tends to be the right one.
albeit (conjunction) – though, even though, however.