Are there any other Dwarf planets besides Pluto?

Answer 1

There are currently 5 recognised Dwarf Planets.

• Ceres - is between Mars and Jupiter in the asteroid belt.
• Pluto
• Eris
• Makemake
• Haumea

For a list of dwarf planet candidates, see related link.

There are currently five known "dwarf planets", but it is certain that there are many more in the Kuiper Belt that have not yet been identified.

Any body in the Kuiper Belt with enough mass to attain "hydrostatic equilibrium" - meaning that it has enough mass that its gravity crushes it into a sphere - will be another "dwarf planet". There may be dozens or hundreds of them, but they are so small and far away that we haven't noticed them yet.

Wait about 6 more years, until the James Webb Space Telescope is launched. It ought to be able to pick out a few.

NASA's "New Horizons" spacecraft will reach the Kuiper Belt during July 2015 to study Pluto and its moons up close for the first time, and also other objects in the belt.

Answer 2

Yes, there are currently five officially recognized dwarf planets in our solar system: Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, and Ceres. These objects share characteristics with both planets and asteroids, but are smaller and have not cleared their orbital paths of other debris.

Answer 3

There are eight planets in our solar system and five dwarf planets. Its unlikely that we'll find more planets in orbit around our sun, but there may be more dwarf planets to be discovered or classified. There are also other planets in orbit around other star systems called exoplanets. These are very far away, so have been very difficult to detect, but so far over 500 have been identified.

Answer 4

The current list of "dwarf planets" (round bodies that orbit the Sun independently) includes, in order of their orbital distance : * Ceres (950 km in diameter and 1/3 of the total mass of the asteroid belt) * Pluto (2390 km in diameter and formerly the 9th solar planet) * Haumea (ellipsoid Kuiper Belt object about 1/3 Pluto's mass) * Makemake (about 1800 km in diameter and a bit farther out than Haumea) * Eris (at 2500 km in diameter and 1.27 the mass of Pluto, the largest discovered Kuiper object. With Dysnomia, its moon, it orbits the Sun once in 557 years.) Candidates for dwarf planet status include Sedna, pending verification of its mass and shape. (Sedna's closest approach to the Sun is barely within the Kuiper Belt, and its orbit may extend to nearly 1000 AU, into the Oort Cloud of comets.)

Answer 5

Ofcourse they will! They try never to give up and they are always continously trying to find life in other planets. The radio dishes are always up and awake to find any signal from outer space. Recently one planet has been found in another solar system which is very hot and rocky though just like earth 3 quarters of it is water. Though this was not done by NASA, a very popular space agency, It has been done by some space agencies in Paris, though the news-letter has not told which one. For further updates, go to www.timesofindia.com and see if you can find further details..Till then, bye...

Answer 6

There are currently 5 dwarf planets in our Solar System with many more candidates. In the whole universe..... trillions.

Answer 7

There are loads of dwarf planets in the kuiper belt.

Answer 8

Yes. Other than Pluto, there is also Ceres, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris.

Answer 9

Yes. There are 4 others: Ceres, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris. Other objects are being considered for classification as dwarf planets as well.

Answer 10

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