Pluto IS a Planet - I Don't Care What You Say

Blog Posts About Dwarf Planets

Is 'Planet X 2.0' Lurking Beyond Pluto's Orbit?

Although dwarf planet Pluto was discovered during the search for Planet X in 1930, apparently ending the quest, there is enduring evidence for the existence of a substantial planet gravitationally shaping the population of minor bodies in the Kuiper ...

OBSERVATIONS BY NASA SHOW ASTEROID IS DWARF PLANET

?The Dawn team finds itself calling these things planets all the time,? Christopher T. Russell, the mission's principal investigator, said in an interview. In the parlance of astronomers, however, Vesta and Ceres, like Pluto, are dwarf planets, ...

New Planet Found in Our Solar System?

Kuiper belt objects are small icy bodies?including some dwarf planets?that lie beyond the orbit of Neptune. Once considered the ninth planet in our system, the dwarf planet Pluto, for example, is one of the largest Kuiper belt objects, at about 1400 ...

New evidence of unseen planet at solar system's edge found

For many years, scientists have observed that a handful of the small icy bodies that lie in the so-called "scattered disc" beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune, including the dwarf planet Sedna, deviate from the paths around the Sun that would be ...