• Question: How many dwarf planets are there?

    Asked by anon-197482 to Rosanna on 12 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Rosanna Tilbrook

      Rosanna Tilbrook answered on 12 Mar 2019:

      Currently, five officially recognised ones. Pluto, Makemake, Haumea and Eris are all pretty close-by in the outer Solar System, whereas Ceres is a dwarf planet that resides in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. We reckon there’s hundreds more dwarf planets out past Pluto, though!

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