The number of dwarf planets in the Solar System is unknown. Estimates have run as high as 200 in the Kuiper belt and over 10,000 in the region beyond....
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the Solar System List of Solar System objects most distant from the Sun List of possible dwarf planets In the convention for minor planet provisional designation...
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Nine likeliest dwarf planets and dates of discovery A dwarf planet is a small planetary-mass object that is in direct orbit around the Sun, massive enough...
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planets List of dwarf planets List of possible dwarf planets Lists of planets List of nearest exoplanets List of largest exoplanets List of directly imaged...
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list of geophysical planets. List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System List of possible dwarf planets List of hypothetical Solar System...
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possible dwarf planets List of trans-Neptunian objects List of Solar System objects by size using the most precise value of Vanth's estimated mass of...
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Eris (minor-planet designation: 136199 Eris) is the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System. It is a trans-Neptunian object...
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like dwarf planets and some moons to the planets and the Sun. This list does not include small Solar System bodies, but it does include a sample of possible...
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(2017). "The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XLI. A dozen planets around the M dwarfs GJ 3138, GJ 3323, GJ 273, GJ 628, and GJ 3293". Astronomy...
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This is a list of the lists of small Solar System bodies and dwarf planets. Lists of comets List of minor planets List of named minor planets (alphabetical)...
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Brown dwarfs are substellar objects that have more mass than the biggest gas giant planets, but less than the least massive main-sequence stars. Their...
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of planets in fiction, see: Fictional planets of the Solar System, Extrasolar planets in fiction § List, and List of Star Wars planets and moons List...
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all of them being officially recognized as dwarf planets by the IAU except for Gonggong, Sedna, and Orcus. There are also many possible dwarf planets, such...
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This list covers all known stars, white dwarfs, brown dwarfs, and sub-brown dwarfs within 20 light-years (6.13 parsecs) of the Sun. So far, 131 such objects...
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Planetary-mass moon List of possible dwarf planets List of minor planets (numbered) and List of unnumbered minor planets List of trans-Neptunian objects...
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four terrestrial planets and the four giant planets in the planet category; Ceres, Pluto, and Eris are in the category of dwarf planet. Many planetary...
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upwards of 3 billion years. This is so close that any habitable planets would be tidally locked. As a white dwarf has a size similar to that of a planet, these...
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considered an exoplanet. More close-in planets, such as the planets around HR 8799 and Kappa Andromedae b also resemble L-dwarfs or have an L spectral type. These...
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dwarf planet as a term for the largest non-planets (despite the name) that, like planets, are in hydrostatic equilibrium and thus can display planet-like...
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list of minor planets in ascending numerical order. Minor planets are small bodies in the Solar System: asteroids, distant objects, and dwarf planets...
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exploration of dwarf planets involves studying these celestial bodies within the Solar System. Since Pluto's reclassification as a dwarf planet in 2006 by...
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rediscovered. Some of them thus appear multiple times in the list to clarify the situation. Color legend The Sun, the planets, dwarf planets, and their natural...
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Smadar; Gaudi, B. Scott (2021). "Giant Planets, Tiny Stars: Producing Short-period Planets around White Dwarfs with the Eccentric Kozai–Lidov Mechanism"...
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classifying an object as a planet. Free-floating sub-brown dwarfs can be observationally indistinguishable from rogue planets, which originally formed around...
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Ceres (minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is a dwarf planet in the middle main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It was the first...
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Small Solar System body (category Minor planets)
minor planets other than those that are dwarf planets. Thus SSSBs are: the comets; the classical asteroids, with the exception of the dwarf planet Ceres;...
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planetary mass which is not gravitationally bound to any star or brown dwarf. Rogue planets may originate from planetary systems in which they are formed and...
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2011). "The stars that host planets". Sky & Telescope. pp. 22–27. "Billions of rocky planets in habitable zones around red dwarfs". European Southern Observatory...
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objects "beyond the T dwarfs" should exist and that these objects would bridge the gap between T dwarfs and the giant planets of the Solar System. Objects...
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the IAU would like us to think of dwarf planets as distinct from 'real' planets lumps the lexical item 'dwarf planet' in with such oddities as 'Welsh...
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