Can people live on the outer planets?

Answer 1

Only if they don't run out of fuel and blankets : the temperature on all dwarf planets is only minimally above Absolute Zero. In the case of Ceres, it is an asteroid surrounded by the vacuum of space. For the remaining dwarfs (Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris), they are too far from the Sun to get any appreciable solar heating. Human visitors would also need a pressurized sealed environment and/or spacesuits : the only "atmosphere" on the Trans-Neptunian bodies would be produced by sublimated frozen nitrogen and methane.

Answer 2

Many planets are just gas so no to them. Those that are solid are so far away from the sun that even if you were in an artificial atmosphere you wouldn't be able to maintain a livable temperature.

Answer 3

There is no definite answer.

It is conceivable that a dwarf planet could be habitable by microscopic life (ie. bacteria, archaea, protozoa, algae, etc), but it is unlikely that dwarf planets could be habitable by more complex organisms such as ourselves. The reason for this is that a dwarf planet, by definition, is one which has not cleared the area within its orbital space, meaning that it is likely to be subject to cataclysmic bombardments far more frequent than a planetary body that has cleared its orbit of significant debris. Also of prime importance are the location and composition of the dwarf planet.

In order for any planet, dwarf or otherwise, to be habitable, it must first lie within the so-called 'Goldilocks' zone of its parent star, where water is liquid. Additionally it must be massive enough to maintain a viable atmosphere and, we assume, have a well-stratified interior with a molten metal core, so as to produce a large electromagnetic field that shields the surface from high energy particles.

The Earth itself no doubt began as a dwarf planet, prior to clearing out its path in the congealing accretion disk of the very early solar system. We know for a fact that life is almost as old as the planet itself (3.5 Ga for life, vs 4.5 Ga for the Earth). So it is possible, given this evidence, that the dwarf planet Earth harbored simple life, before dominating its orbital path and graduating to full planet-hood.

Of further note: all known extant dwarf planets in our solar system (Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris) are not habitable, as they all exist well outside the habitable zone of the Sun.

Answer 4

no are u crazy no planets are suitable for life unless it s earth