Solar System Dwarf Planets List

Estimates have run as high as 200 in the kuiper belt and over 10 000 in the region beyond.

Solar system dwarf planets list. Earth the only planet that is known to have life. Venus the warmest planet. There are currently 181 known moons in our solar system orbiting the various planets and dwarf planets. Mercury the planet with the second highest temperature in the solar system and the closest planet to the sun.

The international astronomical union iau notes five in particular. Other solar system bodies that are possibly dwarf planets include sedna and quaoar small worlds far beyond pluto s orbit and 2012 vp113 an object that is thought to have one of the most distant. The category dwarf planet was created in 2006 to make room for the many large bodies being discovered on the outer reaches of the solar system. An image taken by the hubble space telescope showing the dwarf planet eris in visible light.

These are the planets mercury and venus and the dwarf planets ceres and makemake. Moons in the solar system. It has one natural satellite the moon. Here s a tour of the five currently recognized.

Pluto is of course the most well known dwarf planet because of its previous classification as the outermost planet of the solar system. Eris was the troublemaker that led to pluto s reclassification. Of the 13 planets and dwarf planets there are four which don t have any moons. Planets in the solar system.

This is a list of the recognized moons of the planets and of the largest potential dwarf planets of the solar system ordered by their official roman numeral designations the 19 moons that are large enough to have been rounded by their own gravity are listed in bold the seven largest moons which are larger than any of the known dwarf planets are listed in bold and italic. Dwarf planets in our solar system. The number of dwarf planets in the solar system is unknown. Sometimes called earth s twin because venus and earth are very similar.

On august 24 2006 the international astronomical union created a term and defined the characteristics of a new category of celestial body different from that of the planet and the minor body. However consideration of the surprisingly low densities of many dwarf planet candidates suggests that the numbers may be much lower e g. It was discovered in 2005 and because it is close in size to pluto briefly considered the solar system s tenth planet.