How much do you know about the Solar System?
There are many things that the humanity has passed through, and one of these things is de astronomy, and despise of all the things the NASA had to say in the last decades, despise of the question: ‘’Can we trust them?’’, what we can see with a simple telescope is incredible
How many planets does the Solar System have?
I bet you are about to say 8 or 9, depending on including Pluto or not, but what if I told you that there are many other planets near the Earth itself?
We all know the main planets, which are Mercury, Venus, Earth (you are here, I guess…), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, excluding Pluto, but there are 4 more ‘’Dwarf Planets’’ (called like this by the NASA).
Ceres
This little boy is between Mars and Jupiter, discovered in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi. In the beginning it was classified as a comet, after that, as the biggest asteroid discovered by mankind, now it is considered as a Dwarf Planet, at least since the creation of this category in 2006.
Eris
Eris is a bit bigger than Pluto, and it has 3 times the size of the orbit of this one too, so it is the farthest planet from our Sun.
Makemake
This one is called after the world’s creator of the Rapa Nui culture. Its size is 2/3 times Pluto’s, and its temperature is 30 K (remember that the minimum temperature – not a fact – is 0 K, which is -273 °C).
Haumea
As you can see in the picture, this planet is weird… It has an ellipsoid form because of its rotation speed, and one day on this planet lasts 3.9 Earth hours, and it has 2 moons
So, did you know all of this? I bet you didn’t even know these planets existed.
