English
Noun
dwarf planet (plural dwarf planets)
- (astronomy) Any astronomical body which has achieved hydrostatic equilibrium (which is the shape a body of water would take, as opposed to a small Solar System body), orbits the Sun (as opposed to a moon), and has not "cleared its neighbourhood" of competing bodies (as opposed to a planet).
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- (dwarf planets of the Solar System) dwarf planets of the Solar System; Ceres, Orcus, Pluto, Salacia, Varuna, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, 2007 OR10, Eris, Sedna
- planetesimal
Translations
a type of celestial body
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- Japanese: 準惑星 (ja) (じゅんわくせい, junwakusei) (official), 矮惑星 (わいわくせい, waiwakusei) (temporary)
- Khmer: ភពក្រិន (phop kren)
- Korean: 왜행성 (ko) (waehaengseong) (矮行星 (ko))
- Latvian: pundurplanēta f
- Lithuanian: nykštukinė planeta f
- Low German:
- German Low German: Dwargplaneet
- Norwegian: dvergplanet m
- Polish: planeta karłowata (pl) f
- Portuguese: planeta anão m
- Romanian: planetă pitică f
- Russian: ка́рликовая плане́та f (kárlikovaja planéta)
- Scottish Gaelic: fo-phlanaid f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: патуљаста планета f
- Roman: patuljasta planeta f, (Croatian) patuljasti planet m
- Sicilian: pianeta nanu m
- Slovak: trpasličia planéta f
- Spanish: planeta enano m
- Swedish: dvärgplanet (sv) c
- Thai: ดาวเคราะห์แคระ (daao krór kráe)
- Turkish: cüce gezegen (tr)
- Vietnamese: hành tinh lùn
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