How to Use dwarf planet in a Sentence

dwarf planet

noun
  • The odd dwarf planet Quaoar might have a brand-new moon.
    — Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The dwarf planet's rings are a puzzle.
    — Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Dawn’s shell is still in that last orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres.
    — Mary Beth Griggs, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2018
  • But, alas, our journey to this furthest dwarf planet is about to come to an end.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2015
  • Right now, the dwarf planet is passing in front of a region of the sky filled with stars.
    — Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • That set the expectations for the dwarf planets, which were thought to be cold and dead.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2018
  • Now, the Dawn spacecraft at the dwarf planet Ceres must face the same fate.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2018
  • Which brings us to Ceres, a dwarf planet that is the largest body in the asteroid belt.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2018
  • So its status was downgraded to a dwarf planet.
    — Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 14 May 2026
  • The Tharsis region alone is the size of the dwarf planet Ceres.
    — Tom Brown, Space.com, 25 May 2026
  • Which is why the discovery of rings around the dwarf planet Quaoar is such a surprise.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
  • And the dwarf planet of Pluto has to share its spread with its satellite Charon.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Try hunting down the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest rock in the main asteroid belt.
    — Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 1 May 2019
  • The artificial tholins absorbed some light that the red regions on the dwarf planet did not.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2021
  • Pluto had the worst fate of all and in 2006 was downgraded to dwarf planet.
    — Fox News, 3 June 2021
  • The Kuiper belt is a vast expanse of rocks, ice clumps, comets and dwarf planets beyond Neptune.
    — Ben Guarino, ajc, 9 Feb. 2018
  • In your space, the wreck-it-all-and-start-again dwarf planet Pluto is chilling out in retrograde.
    — Jennifer Culp, Them, 2 Aug. 2024
  • To look at why methane ice would form in those locations, the researchers turned to a climate model of the dwarf planet.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Past the orbit of Neptune, in the most remote part of our solar system, there lurks a dwarf planet.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The dwarf planet also shares its orbit with frozen gases and objects in the Kuiper belt, researchers note.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2018
  • The New Horizons mission to Pluto showed that the dwarf planet, too, has a haze.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 28 Dec. 2020
  • In fact, Pluto’s spin axis lies somewhere between the dwarf planet and Charon.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Given the shape of the ridge, Tricarico was able to precisely place the former pole of the dwarf planet.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2018
  • Although the dwarf planet’s beginnings are buried deep in the past, its two possible origins should have left marks on the surface.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 22 June 2020
  • Without the sun, the planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets in the solar system would just slide off into space.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 3 Nov. 2019
  • Starting in September, the dwarf planet that rules long cycles of permanent change gives you a break for three months.
    — Jennifer Culp, Them, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, is even bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Sep. 2024
  • That size also means DeeDee should have enough mass to take on a spherical shape, which would qualify it as a dwarf planet.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 14 Apr. 2017
  • The largest object in the asteroid belt, the dwarf planet Ceres, is an icy body that measures 592 miles across.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Vesta is the second-largest object in the asteroid belt, second only to the dwarf planet Ceres.
    — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2019

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