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    Gonggong (minor-planet designation: 225088 Gonggong) is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. It has a highly eccentric and...
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    Xiangliu (moon) (redirect from Gonggong I)
    Xiangliu, full designation 225088 Gonggong I Xiangliu, is the only known moon of the scattered-disc dwarf planet Gonggong. It was discovered by a team of...
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  • possibly have become dwarf planets at some point in their past or to still be dwarf planets at present. Pluto–Charon, Eris, Haumea, Gonggong, Makemake, Quaoar...
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    least the nine largest candidates are dwarf planets – in rough order of size, Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong, Quaoar, Ceres, Orcus, and Sedna. Considerable...
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    from the Sun, and 2.8 times farther away than Neptune. The dwarf planets Eris and Gonggong are presently farther away from the Sun than Sedna. It is suggested...
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  • such as the fire god Zhurong. In astronomy, the dwarf planet 225088 Gonggong is named after Gonggong. In English, the two syllables of the name are the...
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    Lunine, J. I.; Hines, D. C. (2024). "A Tale of 3 Dwarf Planets: Ices and Organics on Sedna, Gonggong, and Quaoar from JWST Spectroscopy". Icarus. 414...
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    Pluto (redirect from Pluto (dwarf planet))
    Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest...
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    Solar System (redirect from Inner planet)
    that the Solar System has at least nine dwarf planets: Ceres, Orcus, Pluto, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris, and Sedna. There are a vast number...
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  • A classical planet is an astronomical object that is visible to the naked eye and moves across the sky and its backdrop of fixed stars (the common stars...
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    Eris (minor-planet designation: 136199 Eris) is the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System. It is a trans-Neptunian object...
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    Titan, Europa, Enceladus, and Triton; dwarf planets Pluto, Orcus, Haumea, Makemake, Quaoar, Sedna, Gonggong, and Eris; and the largest comets. In June...
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  • suggests that Sedna, Gonggong, and Quaoar underwent internal melting, differentiation, and chemical evolution, like the larger dwarf planets Pluto, Eris, Haumea...
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    planets named after rivers Lists of astronomical objects Binary asteroid Dwarf planets – top ten most likely: Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong...
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    Quaoar, a dwarf planet Weywot Makemake, a dwarf planet (307261) 2002 MS4 120347 Salacia 20000 Varuna Scattered-disc objects Gonggong, a dwarf planet Xiangliu...
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  • used astronomically for Pluto as a dwarf planet. In the early 21st century, symbols for the trans-Neptunian dwarf planets have come into use, particularly...
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  • parent planet as I (Ariel), II (Umbriel), III (Titania), and IV (Oberon), and this finally stuck. At the time of Neptune's discovery, dwarf planet Ceres...
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    known moon, Actaea. Brown estimated that Salacia is nearly certainly a dwarf planet. However, William Grundy et al. argue that objects in the size range...
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  • moon Triton is considered possible as well. Mysterious fault lines on dwarf planet Pluto may suggest that it has a hidden subsurface ocean. Lava lakes are...
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    commonly considered dwarf planets by astronomers are also known to have natural satellites: Orcus, Pluto, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, and Eris. As of...
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  • asteroid). In the 21st century, several new planet-sized bodies, including Sedna (), Quaoar (), Orcus (), Gonggong (), Haumea (), Makemake (), and Eris ()...
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    lists of planets. A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is neither a star nor its remnant. The best available theory of planet formation...
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    Quaoar, Gonggong and Haumea, should be considered planets in their own right. However, the discovery of Eris did not rehabilitate the Planet X theory...
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    Haumea (minor-planet designation: 136108 Haumea) is a dwarf planet located beyond Neptune's orbit. It was discovered in 2004 by a team headed by Mike Brown...
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  • Of the Solar System's eight planets and its nine most likely dwarf planets, six planets and seven dwarf planets are known to be orbited by at least 300...
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  • demonstrated to be dwarf planets. Astronomers normally include these five, as well as four more: Quaoar, Sedna, Orcus, and Gonggong. Many critics of the...
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  • up Gonggong in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gong gong, Gonggong, or Gong Gong, may refer to: 225088 Gonggong (2007 OR10; Dwarf Planet Gonggong), a...
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  • Clearing the neighbourhood (category Definition of planet)
    IAU-recognised planets have cleared their neighbourhoods to a much greater extent (by orders of magnitude) than any dwarf planet or candidate for dwarf planet. The...
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    Quaoar (redirect from Quaoar (dwarf planet))
    a dwarf planet. Since then, Brown has contributed to the discovery of larger trans-Neptunian objects, including Haumea, Eris, Makemake and Gonggong. Upon...
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    Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong, Quaoar, Sedna, and Orcus, all of them being officially recognized as dwarf planets by the IAU except for Gonggong, Sedna, and Orcus...
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