A Dwarf Planet is a relatively new definition, dating August 24, 2006, describing a a spherical celestial body revolving about the sun, similar to a planet but not large enough to gravitationally clear its orbital region of mostor all other celestial bodies. The list of established Dwarf Plane...
DnD’s main setting. Many dwarves from otherDnD planesand planets also bear resemblance to this subrace – some of theDragonlancedwarves are hill dwarves, for example.
Today's result means that schoolchildren needn't worry about memorizing the names of dozens of planets. Instead, future textbooks will list just eight planets, then go on to mention the large and growing number of dwarf planets, of which Ceres, Pluto, and 2003 UB313— which codiscovererMicha...
Year of the dwarf planets:Sure,Pluto got its close-up– but NASA’s Dawn spacecraft also started takinga close look at Ceres, the smallest known dwarf planet and the biggest world in the main asteroid belt. Dawn’s data heightened the mystery surrounding Ceres’ alien-looking bright spots, ...
(IAU), the organization charged by the scientificcommunitywith classifying astronomical objects, voted to remove Pluto from the list of planets and give it the new classification ofdwarf planet. The change reflects astronomers’ realization that Pluto is a large member of theKuiper belt, a ...
Kuiper noted, however, that comets with very short periods (20 years or less), which all orbit in the same direction as all the planets around the Sun and close to the plane of the solar system, require a nearer, more-flattened source. This explanation, clearly restated in 1988 by the ...
Asteroids & Dwarf Planets Detailed information about 78 asteroids and dwarf planets. Objects are listed in order of decreasing brightness. Legend of symbols: ⓘ 4 Vesta stars 4 Vesta radio_button_checked Magnitude: 6.3 trending_up Apparent: 15h 15m 37s -06° 32’ 03” J2000: 15h 14...