ORRERY - Relative Positions of Planets
Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
Dwarf Planets
Plutoids
(outside the orbit of Neptune)
Pluto (Formerly known as the planet Pluto)Eris (Formerly known as the Kuiper Belt Object 2003 UB313)
Makemake (Formerly known as the Kuiper Belt Object 2005 FY9)
Haumea (Formerly known as the Kuiper Belt Object 2003 EL61 )
Non-Plutoids
(inside the orbit of Neptune)
Ceres (Formerly known as the asteroid Ceres)
Candidates for Dwarf Planet Status
Charon - 750 mile diameterQuaoar (kwa-whar) - 800 mile diameter
Orcus - 950 mile diameter
Sedna - 1000 mile diameter
Vesta - 330 mile diameter
Planets discovered outside our solar system
357 planets orbiting 301 stars - (38 multiple planet systems)For all the details of these extrasolar planets, visit The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia.
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