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Bookmark or Share- Dwarf planet - WikipediaA dwarf planet is a small planetary-mass object that is in direct orbit around the Sun, massive enough to be gravitationally rounded, but insufficient to achieve orbital dominance like the eight classical planets of the Solar System.
- Meet the Solar System's five official dwarf planets - The Planetary SocietyThe IAU currently recognizes five dwarf planets: Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris. Ceres lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, while the rest are in the Kuiper Belt. There are almost certainly more dwarf planets. Unfortunately, most are very far away, and we can’t definitively prove that they are round.
- Pluto - WikipediaPluto ( minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most- massive known object to directly orbit the Sun.
- Dwarf Planets: Science and Facts About Solar System’s Smaller Worlds ...Dwarf planets are worlds that are too small to be considered full-fledged planets, but too large to fall into smaller categories. In recent years, there's been a lot of hubbub about Pluto...
- Pluto | Size, Moons, Temperature, & Facts | BritannicaPluto, large, distant member of the solar system that formerly was regarded as the outermost and smallest planet. In 2006 a group of experts in the scientific community voted to give Pluto the new classification of dwarf planet. Learn more about Pluto in this article.
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