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Question

I am ten and I want to do a report on the dwarf planets if you have any informaion please give it to me and if not thanks for loking at this.

this is from my ten year old

Answer 1

He are some links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_planet

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Dwarf&Display=OverviewLong

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A14196549

http://www.planetary.org/explore/topics/pluto/new_solarsystem.html

http://space.about.com/b/a/256760.htm

http://www.britannica.com/eb/subject?idxStructId=1224420

Answer 2

Hi!

By dwarf planets you must mean Pluto, Sedna, Xena and all the rest.

These objects were called "Kuiper Belt Objects" before the term "dwarf planet" was used, because it's thought that they originated from the Kuiper Belt.

The Kuiper belt is a belt of ice, dust, gas, and chunks of debris that orbit our solar system out beyond Pluto. You can see a drawing of it, along with anothing thing called the Oort cloud, and read more about it, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt

Answer 3

You are awesome!!!!

"Dwarf planet" is a classification by the International Astronomical Union. It is an object that acts like a planet in every way except one, that is, it is has not cleared its own orbit of smaller objects.

That's why Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet. It hasn't cleared its own orbit of junk.

The International Astronomical Union decided that Pluto was no longer a planet. Instead, they decided to classify it as a "dwarf planet".

See the details below.

RESOLUTION 5A
The IAU therefore resolves that "planets" and other bodies in our Solar System, except satellites, be defined into three distinct categories in the following way:

(1) A "planet" [footnote 1] is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.

(2) A "dwarf planet" is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape [footnote 2] , (c) has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and (d) is not a satellite.

(3) All other objects [footnote 3] except satellites orbiting the Sun shall be referred to collectively as "Small Solar-System Bodies".


Footnote 1: The eight "planets" are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

Footnote 2: An IAU process will be established to assign borderline objects into either dwarf planet and other categories.

Footnote 3: These currently include most of the Solar System asteroids, most Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), comets, and other small bodies.

RESOLUTION 6A
The IAU further resolves:

Pluto is a "dwarf planet" by the above definition and is recognized as the prototype of a new category of trans-Neptunian objects.

Answer 4

Hello... The best place I have found to find information is the site of nasa.com... they have a vast information system, where you can actually email many of the scientist there to find out the answer to your question and if it is ok with your parents, you can join the site ..free.. and study all you want of the universe .

Good Luck..

Answer 5

As mentioned, just look it up in a search engine.
Here are some sites anyways...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_planet
http://www.answers.com/topic/dwarf-planet

Answer 6

in any search engine (google, yahoo, etc) type "dwarf palnets", and it will gove you numerous answers. Also try NASA website (www.nasa.gov) Good luck

Answer 7

This should do it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_planet