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Dwarf planets by their definition do not have a specific place in which they are necessarily located, but as it pertains to our solar systems, a majority of the dwarf planets have been located beyond Neptune, in a region of the system known as the Kuiper Belt. The only current dwarf planet in the inner solar system is Ceres, in the Asteroid Belt.

A dwarf planet is defined as

  • An object with sufficient mass to generate enough self-gravity to attain hydrostatic equilibrium (meaning a near sperical shape)
  • An object that is not a satellite of another planetary body
  • One that (unlike the major planets) has not sufficiently cleared its orbit of other astronomical bodies.

Pluto is now classified as a Dwarf Planet thanks in part to the discovery of several other objects in the belt of similiar, if not larger, mass within the Kuiper Belt, known collectively as KBOs, Kuiper Belt Objects. Another example of a dwarf planet would be Ceres, located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. There is also Eris, which is an example of a series of objects collectively known in our system as Trans-Neptunian Objects-TNOs. Neptune's own moon of Triton has been theorized to be a Dwarf planet-TNO that was captured by planet's gravity after being knocked out of it's original orbit within the Belt. The remaining dwarf planets are Haumea and Makemake in the Kuiper Belt.

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