How to Use dwarf planet in a Sentence

dwarf planet

noun

• 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
• Dawn’s shell is still in that last orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres.
  — Mary Beth Griggs, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2018
• And the dwarf planet of Pluto has to share its spread with its satellite Charon.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 13 Aug. 2022
• That set the expectations for the dwarf planets, which were thought to be cold and dead.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2018
• Try hunting down the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest rock in the main asteroid belt.
  — Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 1 May 2019
• The New Horizons mission to Pluto showed that the dwarf planet, too, has a haze.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 28 Dec. 2020
• Pluto had the worst fate of all and in 2006 was downgraded to dwarf planet.
  — Fox News, 3 June 2021
• 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
• But, alas, our journey to this furthest dwarf planet is about to come to an end.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2015
• The Kuiper belt is a vast expanse of rocks, ice clumps, comets and dwarf planets beyond Neptune.
  — Ben Guarino, ajc, 9 Feb. 2018
• 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
• Plus it’s hard to remain in a stable orbit so close around a dwarf planet.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 1 June 2018
• The planet-sized moon Triton is thought to be a dwarf planet from the Kuiper Belt that was captured by Neptune.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, is even bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Sep. 2024
• 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
• In your space, the wreck-it-all-and-start-again dwarf planet Pluto is chilling out in retrograde.
  — Jennifer Culp, Them, 2 Aug. 2024
• The two Voyagers are now out in the exurbs of the solar system, far beyond the orbit of even the dwarf planet Pluto.
  — Joel Achenbach, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2017
• The artificial tholins absorbed some light that the red regions on the dwarf planet did not.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2021
• In 2005: Astronomers announced the discovery of the dwarf planet Eris in the solar system.
  — The Arizona Republic, 29 July 2024
• 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
• 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
• The Kuiper Belt is a ring of objects between Neptune and the edge of the solar system full of dwarf planets, hundreds of thousands of icy rocks and comets.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 12 Feb. 2018
• In 2015, the New Horizons probe made a close pass of Pluto, taking the first nearby observations of the dwarf planet and its moons.
  — Jay Bennett, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2012
• Tucked into the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, the dwarf planet Ceres is a small world that holds big surprises.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 10 Aug. 2020
• New Horizons flew about 4,800 miles above Pluto’s surface—close enough to snap detailed pictures of the dwarf planet.
  — Popular Science, 29 June 2020
• 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 dwarf planet’s orbit is even flatter than Mars’s orbit, causing the sunlight to vary by as much as 64 percent.
  — Shannon Hall, New York Times, 5 July 2018
• Vesta is the second-largest object in the asteroid belt, second only to the dwarf planet Ceres.
  — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2019
• 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

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024