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In the solar system, there are many interesting objects, such as planets, comets, asteroid belts, and natural satellites, but other objects do not fall into any of the above classifications; these are the dwarf planets.
Do you want to know how many dwarf planets there are and how long it would take us to reach each of them? Let's start!
WHAT IS A DWARF PLANET?
DISTANCE TO THE DWARF PLANETS
We will name the distance between each dwarf planet from its proximity to the Sun in this list.
1. Ceres
Ceres is the largest astronomical object in the asteroid belt; this is a region of the solar system that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Ceres has a diameter of about 945 km, being smaller than Pluto.
2. Pluto
The most famous dwarf planet of all. Pluto, which was the ninth planet for a long time, is beyond the orbit of Neptune, precisely 40 Astronomical Units, which is equivalent to 3,670 million miles (5,906 million km).
3. Haumea
Discovered in 2003 by a team led by José Luis Ortiz Moreno at the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Spain, this dwarf planet is the third closest to the Sun.
4. Makemake
Discovered on March 31, 2005, by a team led by Professor Michael Brown of the astronomical observatory at the California Institute of Technology.
This dwarf planet has also not been directly observed, but observations of its light curve suggest that it has reached hydrostatic equilibrium; that is, it is almost spherical.
5. Eris
Discovered in January 2005 by a team from the Palomar Observatory led by Professor Michael E. Brown. This dwarf planet has a size very similar to Pluto. So far, no space probe has visited this object, and its shape has not been directly observed.


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00:00 Intro
0:34 what is a dwarf planet
1:40 pluto history
4:15 Distance to the dwarf planets
4:22 Ceres
6:05 Pluto
7:54 Haumea
9:00 Makemake
10:45 Eris

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