DWARF PLANETS

Back Statistics

• Dwarf planets are made of rock and ice
• They can range from 1445 miles to 591.8 miles in diameter
• Most are located in the Kupier belt
• They orbit the sun, and are spherical in shape due to there gravity

FACTS

• Dwarf planets are the right size to be a planet,
• Need debris cleared of their orbits
• There diameter is between 950 and 2363 km
• It takes the 4.5 to 577 earth years to orbit the sun
• Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930

FACTS

• New guidelines for planets made Pluto a dwarf planet
• It has debris in it's orbit
• No probes have reached Pluto
• The New Horizons probe will reach Pluto in 2015
• Plutos orbit is in more of a elliptical shape than a circular shape

FACTS

• Pluto has 5 moons in its orbit
• They orbit the sun
• Ceres is the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt

Fun facts

• Some scientists consider dwarf planets as planets
• Scientists recently discovered another possible dwarf planet
• It is called VP113
• Makemake was the 4th body identified as a dwarf planet in 2005

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• www.space.com
• www.windows2universe.org
• space-facts.com/dwarf-planets/
• airandspace.si.edu