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 Translation for 'dwarf planet' from English to Norwegian
NOUN   a dwarf planet | dwarf planets
astron.
dvergplanet {m}
dwarf planet
astron.
planet {m}
planet
astron.
småplanet {m}
minor planet
dverg {m}dwarf
astron.
dverggalakse {m}
dwarf galaxy
bot.T
dvergtistel {m} [Cirsium acaule, syn.: Cirsium acaulon]
dwarf thistle [stemless thistle]
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Usage Examples English
  • Remotely guided space probes have flown by all of the observed planets of the Solar System from Mercury to Neptune, with the "New Horizons" probe having flown by the dwarf planet Pluto and the "Dawn" spacecraft currently orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres.
  • Ceres, the only dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, has a thin water-vapor atmosphere. Although the dwarf planet might not have living things today, there could be signs it harbored life in the past.
  • The center of mass of the Jupiter–Sun system lies outside the surface of the Sun, though arguing that Jupiter and the Sun are a double star is "not" analogous to arguing Pluto-Charon is a double dwarf planet.
  • Vesta is thought to be the second-largest asteroid, both by mass and by volume, after the dwarf planet Ceres, though in volume it overlaps with the uncertainty in the measurements of 2 Pallas.
  • Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune.

  • The dwarf planet Pluto (formerly considered a planet) is anomalous in several ways, including that it also rotates on its side.
  • "Dawn" launched on 27 September 2007, to explore the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres.
  • With the decision of the International Astronomical Union to reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet in 2006, the flyby of Neptune by "Voyager 2" in 1989 retroactively became the point when every known planet in the Solar System had been visited at least once by a space probe.
  • Other possible candidates for terraforming (possibly only partial or paraterraforming) include large moons of Jupiter or Saturn (Titan, Callisto, Ganymede, Europa, Enceladus), and the dwarf planet Ceres.
  • The largest asteroid is Ceres, which at about 940 km in diameter is big enough to be a dwarf planet.

  • In 2023, it was discovered that the dwarf planet and Kuiper belt object Quaoar has a widely-separated ring.
  • The dwarf planet Pluto is the largest member as well as the namesake of this group.
  • The next largest body in a similar 2:3 resonance with Neptune, called a "plutino", is the probable dwarf planet Orcus.
  • The dwarf planet Pluto has proven difficult to resolve because its angular diameter is about 0.1″.
  • Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere.

  • Eris was never officially classified as a planet, and the 2006 definition of planet defined both Eris and Pluto not as planets but as dwarf planets because they have not cleared their neighbourhoods.
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