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8 9 Only one d~ pldnet hc:19 i,een found
Ceres 111ay have a
deep Jayer oi ice under ih the Asteroid Seit between Mars and
rts tt,in, dusty crust. Jur:,iter. It's called Ceres, and it is also classed as the
largest asteroid. The other dwarf planets orbit the
Sun in the Kuiper Belt, beyond the farthest planets.

r;r;

/ f:ris' discovery
made astronomers
rethink Pluto's
status as a planet.
Eris has more mass
than Pluto, so both
were classed as dwarf
planets. Eris is the most
distant dwarf planet,
made of rock and ice .

.a. \:ris has a tiny
11100n called Dysno111ia. I. When was Pluto
In Greek 111ythology, ctiscovered'il
Dysno111ia was the
daughter OT the z. Which dwar.P planet is
Greek god \:ris. bigger than Pluto'{
3. Which dwar.P planet is
.Purther .Prom the Sun -
Haumea or Makemake'il
tlau111ea 111ay
have been set
spinning very 9 J Dwarf planet
tast when Haumea is a very strange
so111ethin9
crashed into shape. It spins so fast, once every
it Millions OT four hours, that it has stretched out into
years 090. the shape of an American football.
Further out from Haumea, Makemake's
surface has large amounts of solid frozen
methane, found as a gas on Earth.