Solar System Dwarf Planets List

Here s a tour of the five currently recognized.

Solar system dwarf planets list.

These are the planets mercury and venus and the dwarf planets ceres and makemake. Moons in the solar system. These celestial bodies are known as dwarf planets and nowadays there are five of them who recieve this name. Of the 13 planets and dwarf planets there are four which don t have any moons.

However consideration of the surprisingly low densities of many dwarf planet candidates suggests that the numbers may be much lower e g. Eris was the troublemaker that led to pluto s reclassification. 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.

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. It was discovered in 2005 and because it is close in size to pluto briefly considered the solar system s tenth planet. The number of dwarf planets in the solar system is unknown. Venus the warmest planet.

The international astronomical union iau notes five in particular. Pluto is of course the most well known dwarf planet because of its previous classification as the outermost planet of the solar system. An image taken by the hubble space telescope showing the dwarf planet eris in visible light. Dwarf planets in our solar system.

At most 10 among bodies known so far. 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. There are currently 181 known moons in our solar system orbiting the various planets and dwarf planets. Estimates have run as high as 200 in the kuiper belt and over 10 000 in the region beyond.

It has one natural satellite the moon. Rather like ceres before it it has suffered because of the number of similar objects now discovered in the same region mean that it can no longer be thought of as one of the major planets. Earth the only planet that is known to have life.