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    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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    Eight 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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    of dwarf planets List of possible dwarf planets Lists of planets Lists of exoplanets List of nearest exoplanets List of largest exoplanets List of brown...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    objects and dwarf planets. The catalog consists of hundreds of pages, each containing 1,000 minor planets. Every year, the Minor Planet Center, which...
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    out of a nebula to create a young protostar orbited by a protoplanetary disk. There are eight planets within the Solar System; planets outside of the...
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    Gonggong (minor-planet designation: 225088 Gonggong) is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. It has a highly eccentric and...
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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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    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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    Only a handful of giant planets and a handful of minor planets are known around white dwarfs. It is a growing list with discoveries of around 6 exoplanets...
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    This list covers all known stars, brown dwarfs, and sub-brown dwarfs within 20 light-years (6.13 parsecs) of the Sun. So far, 131 such objects have been...
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    trojans Mars-crossing minor planets Asteroids in the asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter Ceres, a dwarf planet Pallas Vesta Hygiea Asteroids...
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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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    Pluto (redirect from Pluto (dwarf planet))
    planet to exclude dwarf planets such as Pluto. Many planetary astronomers, however, continue to consider Pluto and other dwarf planets to be planets....
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  • This is a list of brown dwarfs. These are objects that have masses between heavy gas giants and low-mass stars. The first isolated brown dwarf discovered...
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    Of the Solar System's eight planets and its eight most likely dwarf planets, six planets and six dwarf planets are known to be orbited by at least 299...
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    to 1:12. List of possible dwarf planets List of trans-Neptunian objects List of Solar System objects by size using the most precise value of Vanth's estimated...
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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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    to remember the planets and dwarf planets of the Solar System, with the order of words corresponding to increasing sidereal periods of the bodies. One...
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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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    metals. Within the Solar System, the terrestrial planets accepted by the IAU are the inner planets closest to the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars...
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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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    Asteroid belt List of possible dwarf planets List of trans-Neptunian objects Planet Nine The literature is inconsistent in the usage of the terms scattered...
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    (minor-planet designation: 136108 Haumea) is a dwarf planet located beyond Neptune's orbit. It was discovered in 2004 by a team headed by Mike Brown of Caltech...
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    moons of the giant planets have features similar to those on the terrestrial planets and dwarf planets, and some have been studied as possible abodes of life...
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    is a large trans-Neptunian object and a possible dwarf planet. It is located in the Kuiper belt, a region of icy objects orbiting beyond Neptune in the...
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