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Dwarf planet

A 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. The prototypical dwarf planet is Pluto, which for decades was regarded as a planet before the "dwarf" concept was adopted…

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History of the concept

MarsAsteroidsCometsMercuryAsteroid belt
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Population of dwarf planets

NeptuneAbsolute magnitudeGeometric albedoMinor Planet CenterGonggong
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Criteria

Harold F. LevisonLambdaSteven SoterMuJean-Luc Margot
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Overview

CeresPlutoQuaoarSednaOrcus
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Dwarf planet

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related to External links · 24
Dwarf planet → Anshool Deshmukh, Asteroids Become Minor Planets, August, BBC News, Citizen, David Kestenbaum, Dwarf Planets, Dwarf Planets May Finally, Get Respect, Hilton, IYA, Mark Belan, Morning Edition, NASA, New, NPR, October, Pluto, Solar System, Surdas Mohit
related to Name · 23
Dwarf planet → Because, Brown, Ceres, CSBN, Dwarf, Earth, IAU, III, In, Indeed, It, Mars, Mercury, Michael, Moon, Names, Other, Pluto, Resolution, Stern
related to Symbols · 18
Dwarf planet → By, Ceres, Charon, Denis Moskowitz, Eris, Gonggong, Haumea, Makemake, Massachusetts, Moskowitz, NASA, Orcus, Pluto, Quaoar, Salacia, Sedna, Symbols, Unicode
related to Planetary-mass moons · 16
Dwarf planet → Alan Stern, At, Ceres, Eris, IAU, Indeed, Jupiter, Neptune's, Pluto, Saturn, Seven, Solar System, Sun, The, These, Triton
related to Criteria · 14
Dwarf planet → Because, Ceres, Dynamicists, Examples, Geoscientists, In, Kuiper, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Pluto, Solar System, The, This
related to Most likely dwarf planets · 14
Dwarf planet → Brown, Ceres, Charon, Emery, Grundy, IAU, Neptunian, Orcus, Pluto, Salacia, Tancredi, The, Those, TNO
related to Former dwarf planets · 12
Dwarf planet → Ceres, Eris, It, Its, Neptune, Phoebe, Pluto, Rheasilvia, Solar System's, Triton, Veneneia, Vesta
related to Population of dwarf planets · 11
Dwarf planet → Ceres, Consequently, Eris, IAU, Neptunian, Only, Pluto, The, There, Though, TNOs
related to Orbital dominance · 10
Dwarf planet → Alan Stern, Harold, Kuiper, Levison, Soter, Stern's, Steven Soter, The, This, Using
related to Exploration · 7
Dwarf planet → As, Ceres, Dawn, New Horizons, On July, On March, Pluto

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dwarf planets pluto planet iau ceres bodies eris moon objects quaoar moons orcus charon equilibrium haumea makemake salacia 2006 body

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Dwarf planetis asmall planetary-mass object that is in direct orbit around the Sun0.90text
Ceresinstance ofand accepted other likely dwarf planets0.80text
Erisinstance ofand accepted other likely dwarf planets0.80text
as well as the larger moonsinstance ofand accepted other likely dwarf planets0.80text
as additional planetsinstance ofand accepted other likely dwarf planets0.80text
nanoplanetinstance ofalternative terms0.80text
subplanet were discussedinstance ofalternative terms0.80text
but there was no consensus among the CSBN to change it.In most languages equivalent terms have been created by translating dwarf planet more-or-less literallyinstance ofalternative terms0.80text
cratersinstance ofapart from small-scale surface features0.80text
fissuresinstance ofapart from small-scale surface features0.80text
Dwarf planetrelated to CriteriaThe0.60section
Dwarf planetrelated to CriteriaIn0.60section

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