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Currently most of the objects of mass between 10 9 kg to 10 12 kg (less than 1000 teragrams (Tg)) listed here are near-Earth asteroids (NEAs). The Aten asteroid 1994 WR12 has less mass than the Great Pyramid of Giza, 5.9 × 10 9 kg. For more about very small objects in the Solar System, see meteoroid, micrometeoroid, cosmic dust, and ...
A dwarf planet is a small planetary-mass object that is in direct orbit around the Sun, massive enough to be gravitationally rounded, but insufficient to achieve orbital dominance like the eight classical planets of the Solar System. The prototypical dwarf planet is Pluto, which for decades was regarded as a planet before the "dwarf" concept ...
332,830 M Earth Sun. 695,000 km Sun. Major planet: 4.3 k m/s Mercury: 59.5 km/s Jupiter: 0.055 M Earth Mercury: 318 M Earth Jupiter: 2500 km Mercury: 69911 k m Jupiter: Dwarf planet: ≈0.43 k m/s Orcus: 1.3 km/s Eris: 0.0000916 M Earth Orcus: 0.0028 M Earth Eris: 487.3 km Ceres: 1187 km Pluto: Major moon of major or dwarf planet
Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system, according to NASA. The planet is what’s known as a gas giant, which means it doesn’t have a solid surface — though it may have a solid core ...
The most recent estimate (2018) puts the total mass of the Kuiper belt at (1.97 ± 0.30) × 10 −2 Earth masses based on the influence that it exerts on the motion of planets. [ 98 ] The small total mass of the dynamically cold population presents some problems for models of the Solar System's formation because a sizable mass is required for ...
Geology. The geology of solar terrestrial planets mainly deals with the geological aspects of the four terrestrial planets of the Solar System – Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars – and one terrestrial dwarf planet: Ceres. Earth is the only terrestrial planet known to have an active hydrosphere .
There are eight planets within the Solar System; planets outside of the solar system are also known as exoplanets . Artist's concept of the potentially habitable exoplanet Kepler-186f. As of 25 July 2024, there are 5,741 confirmed exoplanets in 4,285 planetary systems, with 960 systems having more than one planet. [1]
A small Solar System body ( SSSB) is an object in the Solar System that is neither a planet, a dwarf planet, nor a natural satellite. The term was first defined in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) as follows: "All other objects, except satellites, orbiting the Sun shall be referred to collectively as 'Small Solar System Bodies