Dwarf planet

A diagram showing all the round bodies in the solar system with a diameter of less than 10,000 km. If the researchers' proposal is accepted, at least 110 bodies in the solar system will be defined as planets. Source: Montage by Emily Lakdawalla. Data from NASA / JPL, JHUAPL/SwRI , SSI, and UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA, processed by Gordan Ugarkovic, Ted Stryk, Bjorn Jonsson, Roman Tkachenko, and Emily Lakdawalla.

Why does a group of researchers want to reopen the debate on the definition of planets?

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The dwarf planet collapsed. Source: NASA.

Keres - summary of findings

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Illustration of the orbit of the dwarf planet RR245 (orange line), image: Alex Parker, OSSOS team

A dwarf planet has been discovered far beyond Pluto's orbit

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The largest dwarf planets at the edge of the solar system. Source: Konkoly Observatory/András Pál, Hungarian Astronomical Association/Iván Éder, NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

Is the largest world in the solar system that doesn't yet have a name about to finally get one?

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The photograph in which the small moon around Maka-Maka, which received the nickname MK 2, was discovered. The moon is the pale spot above Maka-Maka. Source: NASA.

Maka-Maka not alone: ​​the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a moon orbiting the dwarf planet

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The New Horizons spacecraft hovers above Pluto and its large moon Charon. Artist illustration: NASA

Good morning Pluto: The New Horizons probe has woken up and is ready for mission

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

From now on they said Eris and not Xena * From now on he is also a dwarf planet

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