November 21, 2012
Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Artist’s impression of the surface of Makemake, a dwarf planet beyond Pluto (ESO/L. Calçada/Nick Risinger) It turns out there’s no air up there: the distant dwarf planet Makemake is surprisingly lacking in an atmosphere, according to findings made by astronomers using [...]
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September 2, 2010
There are many criteria that go into explaining what is a dwarf planet. The International Astronomical Union(IAU) defines a dwarf planet like this ‘… is a celestial body orbiting a star that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity but has not cleared its neighboring region of planetismals and is not a [...]
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