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- 3. most commonly known dwarf planet, used to be a planet
- 6. dwarf planets contain small amounts of
- 7. dwarf planets lack this separating them from other space objects
- 9. the shape of a dwarf planet
- 13. the type of telescope used to help discover dwarf planets
- 14. the place where all existing matter in space
- 15. must be this type of body to be considered a dwarf planet
- 16. resembling a small planet but lacking certain technical criteria that are required for it to be classed as such
- 17. belt where all dwarf planets are found
- 18. _____is one of the largest known dwarf planets in our solar system. It's about the same size as Pluto but is three times farther from the Sun.
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- 1. dwarf planet and the second-largest of what are known as the classical population of Kuiper belt
- 2. a celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star
- 4. description of the dwarf planets relatively great size
- 5. where all planets, stars and other objects in our galaxy are found
- 8. makes distant objects appear nearer,
- 9. placed in orbit around dwarf planets to gather data
- 10. dwarf planet that is a member of a group of objects that orbit in a disc-like zone
- 11. largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and it's the only dwarf planet located in the inner solar system.
- 12. the movement of dwarf planets around the sun