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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.

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