Dwarf planets

DWARF PLANET FACTS

There are 5 officially recognised dwarf planets in our solar system, they
are Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake and Eris. With the exception of Ceres, which is
located in the asteroid belt, the other dwarf planets are found in the outer solar system.
There are another 6 objects in our solar system that are almost certainly dwarf planets
and there may as many as 10,000. Of the dwarf planets only 2 have been visited by
space probes, in 2015 NASA’s Dawn and New Horizons missions reached Ceres and
Pluto respectively.
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 Pluto
-Discovered in 1930, Pluto is the second closest dwarf planets to the sun. Pluto at one point was
classified as the ninth planet. Pluto is the largest dwarf planet but only the second massive.

 Pluto Dwarf planet profile

Diameter: 2,372 km
Mass: 1.31 x 10^22 kg
Orbit Period: 248.0 years
Orbit distance: 5,874,000,000 km
Surface temperature: -229 C
Moons: 5 (Charon)
Discovery date: February 18th, 1930
Discovered by: Clyde W. Tombaugh

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  Ceres
- The closest dwarf planet closest to the sun and is located in the asteroid belt, between Mars
and Jupiter, making it the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system. Ceres is the smallest of
the bodies’ current classified as dwarf planet.

 Ceres Dwarf planet profile

Diameter: 950 km
Mass: 8.96 x 10^20
Orbit period: 1,680 days
Orbit distance: 413,700,000 km
Surface temperature: -105 C
Moons: 0
Discovery date: January 1st, 1801
Discovered by: Giuseppe Piazzi

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 Haumea
- The third closest planet from the Sun and is unique in its elongated shape making it the least
spherical of the dwarf planets.

 Haumea Dwarf planet profile

Equatorial diameter: 1960 km to 1,518 km
Polar diameter: 996 km
Mass: 4.01 x 10^21 kg
Orbit period: 283.3 years
Orbit distance: 6,452,000,000 km
Surface temperature: -241 C
Moons: 2(Hi’laka & Namaka)
Discovery date: December 28th, 2004
Discovered by: (Disputed) Mike Brown &team or Jose Ortiz Moreno & team

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  Makemake
- Second furthest dwarf planet from the sun and is the third largest dwarf planet in the solar
system.

 Makemake Dwarf planet profile

Equatorial diameter: 1,434 km
Polar diameter: 1,422 km
Mass: 2-5 x 10^21
Orbit period: 309.9 years
Orbit distance: 6,850,000,000 km
Surface temperature: -239 C
Discovery date: March 31st, 2005
Discovered by: Michael E. brown, Chad Trujillo & David Rabinowitz

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