Are there 8 or 9 planets in the solar system?

Our solar system is made up of a star—the Sun—eight planets, 146 moons, a bunch of comets, asteroids and space rocks, ice, and several dwarf planets, such as Pluto. The eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Mercury is closest to the Sun.

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Is there actually 9 planets?

The announcement does not mean there is a new planet in our solar system. The existence of this distant world is only theoretical at this point and no direct observation of the object nicknamed "Planet 9" have been made.

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Why is there only 8 planets instead of 9?

There were nine planets in the solar system, Which are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Now we have only eight planets as pluto is excluded.

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What is the 9th planet called?

In 1930, Pluto was discovered and officially named the ninth planet. However, in 1978, Pluto was determined to be too low in mass to have caused these perturbations, so the possibility of a tenth planet was proposed.

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Why is Pluto no longer a planet?

Answer. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) downgraded the status of Pluto to that of a dwarf planet because it did not meet the three criteria the IAU uses to define a full-sized planet. Essentially Pluto meets all the criteria except one—it “has not cleared its neighboring region of other objects.”

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What is Pluto called now?

Pluto is officially classified as a dwarf planet.

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What is the missing planet in our solar system?

Planet Nine is a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer region of the Solar System. Its gravitational effects could explain the peculiar clustering of orbits for a group of extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs), bodies beyond Neptune that orbit the Sun at distances averaging more than 250 times that of the Earth.

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Is Planet 9 a black hole?

Planet Nine is unnamed, unconfirmed, and unknown. We haven't been able to detect it, and we don't even know for sure that if we did spot it, it would even be a planet. It might be a special kind of black hole, or be made entirely of dark matter.

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Is there a 11th planet?

The 11 recognized planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Eris. Ceres, Pluto and Eris are considered dwarf planets. National Geographic Children's Books created the contest in response to the recent announcement about the planets.

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What is the coldest planet?

Uranus holds the record for the coldest temperature ever measured in the Solar System: a very chilly -224℃. The temperature on Neptune is still very cold, of course – usually around -214℃ – but Uranus beats that. The reason why Uranus is so cold is nothing to do with its distance from the Sun.

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Which planet is 57 times bigger than Earth?

Neptune turned out to be almost an identical twin of Uranus. It is 57 times bigger than the Earth, but spins quite rapidly – one day lasts only 16 hours 7 minutes. Its average distance from the Sun is about 4,500 million km, and one year on Neptune lasts for almost 165 Earth years.

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What is no longer the 9th planet?

In 2006 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) demoted the much-loved Pluto from its position as the ninth planet from the Sun to one of five “dwarf planets.” The IAU had likely not anticipated the widespread outrage that followed the change in the solar system's lineup.

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Will all 8 planets ever align?

No. And neither will anyone else. While such images are novel ideas, and while some might wonder if such an alignment would lead to some supernatural event as you see in the movies, it's never going to happen. The main reason is because not all the planets are on parallel orbital paths.

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Why can't we find Planet 9?

Professor Batygin has predicted an orbit of Planet Nine based on the movement of the objects he believes it is affecting, but pinpointing it still isn't going to be easy. Its elusive nature suggests that it's at the far edge of its enormous orbit, meaning it's unlikely to be reflecting much light from the Sun.

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Did we have 12 planets?

There are eight planets in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

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What is the 10th planet called?

Answer: There is no known Planet X or 10th planet in our solar system. Scientists have been looking for about a hundred years. It was believed that such a planet was required to explain the orbital characteristics of the outer planets Uranus and Neptune.

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What are the 12 solar system?

Our solar system consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity – the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; dwarf planets such as Pluto; dozens of moons; and millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids.

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Is there a sister planet to Earth?

Venus is often called "Earth's twin" because they're similar in size and structure, but Venus has extreme surface heat and a dense, toxic atmosphere. If the Sun were as tall as a typical front door, Earth and Venus would each be about the size of a nickel.

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Is galaxy black hole real?

Astronomers believe that supermassive black holes lie at the center of virtually all large galaxies, even our own Milky Way. Astronomers can detect them by watching for their effects on nearby stars and gas.

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Is Planet 9 a ice giant?

The scientists assume that the planet is a small ice giant with an envelope of hydrogen and helium. With their evolution model they calculated how parameters like the planetary radius or the brightness evolved over time since the Solar System has formed 4.6 billion years ago.

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Will Earth be in a black hole?

If the Earth had the misfortune to either encounter a black hole or simply have one get too close to it, our planet would be irrevocably destroyed. This is an extremely unlikely scenario, but we have all the time in the Universe to wait for it.

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Where is planet 1?

The smallest planet in our solar system and nearest to the Sun, Mercury is only slightly larger than Earth's Moon.

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How many planets are left in the universe?

He found that -- given our current understanding of the universe and the laws of physics -- there should be 7 times 1020 planets in the universe. That's 7 followed by 20 zeroes or 70 quintillion.

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