There are five known dwarf planets in our solar system. One of them is named Ceres, after the Roman goddess of corn, ...

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There are eight planets in our solar system. The closest one to the sun ... The largest object is the asteroid belt is the dwarf planet Ceres, which is 950km in diameter (that's about the same ...

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NARRATOR: Our solar system is filled with mysterious worlds ... And scientists estimate there may be 200 dwarf planets. Some have rings and moons. Some are bizarre and misshapen.

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In the Kuiper belt, a dark region extending far beyond Neptune, telescopes unveiled bunches of Plutinos—icy dwarf worlds ... together than the planets in our solar system. Some are Jupiter ...