Download what are Dwarf or minor planets and how did they form?

BY:Jacob Moneda and Caleb Castro
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orbits around the sun
nearly spherical in shape
has NOT cleared the neighborhood around its
orbit
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Haumea
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Sedna
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Eris
4.
Makemake
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Ceres
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Pluto
Discovered some
dwarf planets
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Discovered Ceres
Italian
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ice and rock
Considered dwarf planet in 2006
Small
It is dim in the sky
Identified by Clyde Tombaugh
Moves very slow
Asteroid and dwarf planet
 Largest asteroid in the asteroid belt
 Considered dwarf planet in 2006
 Guiseppe Piazzi Discovered
 Largest body in the asteroid
belt
 Turns in its axis
every 9 hours
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Discovered in 2005
 Became a dwarf planet in 2008
 Smaller than pluto and Eris
 Mike Brown
 Icy world that orbits far
from the Sun
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Large sphere of ice and rock
Spotted in 2005
Edge of the solar system
Solar System’s tenth planet
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The fifth dwarf planet
Classified a dwarf planet in 2008
Icy world that orbits far from the sun on the
frozen fringes
Takes 285 yrs. To orbit the Sun
Odd shape
Spins fast
Our World: Pluto - Our First Dwarf Planet
By SciTech .Flix (Youtube)
Wikipedia
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