Dwarf planets are very underrated, Despite the fact that the kuiper belt is much larger than the asteroid belt makes it a very large surface to explore. Nice idea keep it up!
Facinating how many worlds there are beyond the main planets. There will truly be enough destinations for humans to explore in our solar system for several centuries. And even think about all the moons and dwarf plabets BEYOND our system.
I don't care how they are categorised, I hate how little we learn about dwarf planets in school. Like I loved astronomy as a kid, but only after finishing high school did I really find out how incredibly large the solar system is and that there is more too it then the 8 planets and Pluto.
I agree, once a few years ago, in 4th grade they only told us the names of the planets and thats it before moving to gravity and stuff, it’s highly overlooked, especially in American Schools. Thank youtube though
If these objects were classified as planets (like they should be), people would see them as equally fascinating places and not lesser insignificant rocks. Dwarf planets are extremely abundant out there, numbering over one hundred! We should learn more about them.
@@Jellyman1129 "If these objects were classified as planets (like they should be)" They shouldn't, since they don't fullfill the third criteria for the definition of planet. "Dwarf planets are extremely abundant out there, numbering over one hundred" Source: trust me bro. You're off by a factor of ten since there are 10 recognized dwarf planets in the solar system
Well SpaceEngine doesn’t necessarily do that for things we’re not 100% sure on (we have no images of Makemake) and for the most part, its Procedurally Generated Also that Spot is an Eclipse from Mk2
Quaoar and Makemake should be reddish, not grey black, they are far more luminous than depicted. And Eris' albedo is also high, it's far more reflective than depicted.
As I'm watching this sitting at my desk and drinking a soda, I like to imagine I'm on these moons sitting on a lawn chair, sipping my drink and enjoying the view.
Definitely Underrated Dwarf Planet Candidates, You also Forgot Varuna, Huya, 2003 AZ84, 2013 FY27, Lempo Hiisi and Paha, uhhhhhh probably some more Some fun facts too: Gonggong is the Biggest Dwarf Planet Candidate (Its the same size as Charon, but not an official Dwarf) Pluto + Charon have the biggest Parent to Moon Ratio Orcus is also Called “Anti-Pluto” Pluto, its moons, and Arrokoth are the only objects Beyond Neptune we have detailed Images of Sedna is predicted to be even Redder than Mars I edited it because I totally forgot that this was from moons and only included ones with moons
Bro I know that shit is hella controversial, but I gotta admit that for me as long as celestial body is not a star, do not orbit another planet, and has achieved hydrostatic equilibrium I consider that body a planet. Great video! Also that view of the Sun as barely stronger than other star is dang powerful. These planets are on the very verge of solar system. If I were one of them I would be afraid not to get gravitationally ejected from it, and then condemned to venture interstellar space for eternity having stars as the only source of the nearly non-existant light. Fascinating part of our cosmic neighborhood.
You kinds sorta have a point honestly, technically Our Earth wouldn’t even be a Planet thanks to the NEOs, but the NEOs are less dense than the Kuiper or asteroid belt
I don’t care that it’s controversial, it needs to be said. You definitely have the right mindset, just remove the “does not orbit another planet” criterion and you’re good! If it’s a body in hydrostatic equilibrium and isn’t doing nuclear fusion like a star, it’s a planet. Round moons are planets that orbit other planets. This is called the geophysical planet definition. The experts already use this definition and have been using it for decades. It turns out, dwarf planets are the most numerous type of planet in the solar system. They dominate the outer zone and outnumber all of the terrestrial planets and giant planets combined! What a wonderful discovery! Unfortunately, astronomers (who don’t study planets) couldn’t cope with having “too many” planets because school kids wouldn’t be able to memorize all of their names. Having billions of stars and galaxies is totally fine, but 12 planets?! That’s absurd! So in 2006, the International Astronomical Union tried to limit the number of planets to 8 with a nonsensical vote (completely insulting the scientific method) and really embarrassed themselves. In the field of planetology, nobody uses this definition. From that day forward, the International Astronomical Union became the IRRELEVANT Astronomical Union. The planetary experts all use the geophysical planet definition, which includes Earth, Jupiter, Pluto, Eris, Sedna, Io, Ganymede, Titan, Enceladus, and many more as planets. m.ruclips.net/video/nItBncb8ORM/видео.html&pp=ygULU3Rlcm4gcGx1dG8%3D The outer solar system (from the Kuiper Belt to the Oort Cloud) is the most unexplored region that has a lot of tantalizing secrets to reveal. I’d love to see a dedicated flyby mission to Eris or Haumea or Quaoar. There’s still so much to learn! Great comment! 👍🏻👍🏻
@@DeltaHydrixianBy the nonsensical IAU definition, the Earth is not a planet. There are over 30,000 asteroids in its orbit. This is one of the many reasons I don’t use this definition, and plenty of others have followed suit.
I would just categorize planets as giant planets (like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune), medium planets (like Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) and small/dwarf planets (like Ceres, Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake etc.), but not exclude the dwarf planets from the planet status (which is anyway nonsense because their category name even _comprises_ "planet"!)
@@goldfing5898Experts already do this. “Dwarf planet” was coined by Alan Stern in 1991 to mean “small planet”. So by definition, they ARE planets. Unfortunately, the Irrelevant Astronomical Union completely botched it by calling dwarf planets something completely different in their big mistake of 2006. So it’s best to ignore them and treat dwarf planets as planets.
@@Jellyman1129 Their "excuse" for not adding Dwarf Planets as Planets is to keep some "Lil Kid Nursery Rhyme" not that complex. And also, because they want to maintain the number of Planets "stable." I mean that's fucking crazy and a thing Science should be ashamed. The "clear your orbit" 3rd criteria, has a lot of loopholes on it. 1 loophole is that if Pluto was located in the inner Solar System, it could have "clear" its orbit because the more your close to the Sun, the less space you need to "clear" and less objects near your orbit. While if Jupiter was located on a orbit near the Oort Cloud, I don't think it would have "clear" its orbit because is so far away of the Sun. Meaning if we discover this bullshit of "Planet Nine" then it would be a Dwarf Planet, even though it would be probably an Ice Giant or a Super Earth. Can't wait for them to give the excuses to add "Planet Nine" as a Planet. Plus, anyways, they said that to be a Planet, you got to be dominant on your orbit, Isn't Ceres freaking dominant on the Asteroid Belt? Then they come with the excuse of the Planet to be able to reflect, captured, or to disturb another object smaller than the planet. And that they shouldn't be objects to comparable size. Dwarf Planets in general don't get as fucking near as Rocky Planets, their orbits are so separate and far away though orbits crosses, their orbits are tilted. Even with Neptune and Pluto, the closest they can get to each other is about "16 AU," Almost as far Of Uranus is of Earth. And also, Planets in general has not clear their orbits. Jean-Luc Margot emphasizes "a planet can never completely clear its orbital zone, because gravitational and radiative forces continually perturb the orbits of asteroids and comets into planet-crossing orbits" and states that the IAU did not intend the impossible standard of impeccable orbit clearing. Its ashamed because we only classify Planets like this. Stars, Compact Stars, Nebulas, Galaxies, and other celestial objects are not classified like this. And they also used the term "pLaNeToiD" or "MiNoR PlAnEt" witch it means "Asteroid. Are you fucking kidding me, do you fucking think that Dwarf Planets has more similarities with Asteroids and Comets than they do with fucking Planets? Dwarf Planets are round, they have an atmosphere, and have Planetary size and mass. I dare to said that Dwarf Planets has more in common with Rocky Planets, than Rocky Planets has with Gas Giant. Either we add Dwarf Planets as a category for Planets, and we Divide Planets as "Inner Rocky Planets" "Central Gas Giants" "Outer Ice Dwarfs." Or Gas Giants stop becoming Planets and they become their own category as they did with Pluto. I also heard that the reasoning of not adding Dwarf Planets as planets, its political and also because of greed, but I haven't found enough evidence for this yet.
@@erickmendoza3669 That’s exactly right. It’s ironic to think that ASTRONOMERS would be afraid of an ASTRONOMICAL number of planets. It’s just nonsense. PhD astronomers who are fully grown adults whining about their kids having trouble memorizing all the planets in school is so childish and juvenile. They need to grow up. The third criterion of the IAU’s definition is the most egregious by far. Imagine we had the Solar System consisting of ONLY Earths in the orbits of each planet. The Earths closer to the Sun will qualify as planets and the Earths farther out will not, SIMPLY because of _where_ they are. Identical objects classifying differently is illogical. Any planet definition where Earth doesn’t _always_ qualify is a broken definition. We all know Earth should qualify as a planet in EVERY circumstance. This “Planet Nine” nonsense is just Mike Brown continuing to boost his ego instead of doing science. It doesn’t exist, but let’s hypothetically say it does. If they discover it, I’m curious to see how the IAU is going to shoehorn it into their definition. Pluto and Eris are dozens of AU apart. They don’t affect each other’s orbit at all. How have they not “cleared their neighborhoods”? And for the people who say “Pluto crosses Neptune’s orbit”, Pluto doesn’t come anywhere near Neptune either. It doesn’t matter that their orbits cross. Meanwhile, Venus and Earth are 0.3 AU from each other at their closest point. How have they “cleared their neighborhoods”? This double standard of what defines a “neighborhood” is basically a result of the IAU doing whatever it could to exclude the dwarf planets from being planets, and then retroactively trying to pretend the planets that qualify are somehow in their own league. All the planets have debris in their orbits, and in fairly equal amounts. Pluto’s orbit isn’t more cluttered than Earth’s orbit, it’s about the same. The only difference is that Pluto has more total debris in its orbit because it has a BIGGER orbit. We never define stars, asteroids, galaxies, or anything else in space by their orbit. We always define them by their physical properties, and planets should be no different. The IAU likes to refer to dwarf planets as “planetoids” or “minor planets”. I don’t think anyone knows what the heck “planetoid” even means (half planet, half asteroid, maybe?), but “minor planet” means “asteroid”. We used this term back when we thought asteroids were small planets, but now we know they’re not. But the IAU just loves to live in the 19th century, only having eight planets and many “minor planets”. If the IAU definition admits that dwarf planets are different from small Solar System bodies (because dwarf planets meet two criteria and small Solar System bodies only meet one criterion), then why are dwarf planets given minor planet numbers? Those are only for asteroids, so why are dwarf planets also getting them? Do astronomers seriously think that dwarf planets are just oversized comets? It seems like it because they keep mixing them together despite not being in the same category. Their excuse is that “they’re both icy”. By that logic, Mars should be an asteroid because “they’re both rocky”. Then astronomers get surprised when Pluto, Eris, Makemake, Quaoar, Gonggong, and Sedna are geologically active. That’s exciting for sure, but not surprising. People with a brain know that planetary processes on these objects aren’t surprising because THEY ARE PLANETS! They behave like planets because they ARE planets! Of course they’re going to be more active than objects like Arrokoth. Maybe they should’ve LISTENED to the planetary experts in 2006 before making a terrible definition! The main advocate for what became the IAU definition was Brian Marsden, who purposely tried to demote Pluto and erase Clyde Tombaugh’s legacy. It was definitely a very political and emotional decision. We can talk more about that if you’d like.
More amazing visuals, even if they're more speculation-based than the video of moons of the full-fledged planets. The music was more Chrono Trigger than Mass Effect in this one, but that's fine by me. I have a feeling that a lot of these dwarf planets will turn out to have more than one moon, once we get a closer look at them. After all, Pluto turned out to have five, but Charon was the only one we knew about before this century. And even Charon wasn't discovered until 1978.
Haumea is my favorite Kyper belt object. (Or Plutoid, as some have dubbed them.) An now you all know that, I'm sure you'll all sleep soundly tonight. Your welcome. Except you won't sleep well because I deliberately used the wrong you're there, Mwah hah hah haaaaa!
I like that, while it comes at the cost of eye candy, we see accurately how LITTLE light actually gets to these dwarf planets since they're so far from the Sun. They're difficult to see unless the Sun is directly behind us. (We have no idea what they actually look like anyway, so the accuracy is appreciated.)
Imagine standing on those worlds or their moon(s) and seeing the Sun as just another mere star, and yet, so far away, there's a single beautiful blue world, summed up by this quote from Carl Sagan. "Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." That would be mental to process, being the furthest human being that has ever been away from Earth.
Haumea is my favorite notable object in our solar system. It looks so unnatural, while at the same time being a culmination of natural laws. It also looks like it's about to break apart, but is far from it.
Most of these dwarf planets are very likely to have even more moons that we just haven't discovered yet, their distance from the sun means that their spheres of influence are quite big.
A dwarf planet called “TG 387” nicknamed “the goblin” is beyond Pluto and Kuiper Belt. TG 387 is nicknamed “the goblin” because of its discovery around Halloween in 2015. It takes the “goblin” dwarf planet 30,000 to 40,000 to complete one orbit around the sun, so it takes the “goblin” dwarf more than double that of Sedna’s orbital period around the sun at over 11,400 years! The “goblin” dwarf planet is only 300 km in diameter. The “goblin” dwarf planet is 1/5 the diameter of Pluto. The most massive dwarf planet ever found is Eris. Eris is a dwarf planet that was discovered in early 2005. Eris takes 558 years to complete one orbit around the sun, so it takes Eris more than double that of Pluto’s orbital period at 248 years! Eris has a moon called Dysnomia. Pluto was discovered in 1930 by American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh. Pluto was not named after the Disney dog. Pluto was named after the ancient Roman god of the underworld. Pluto will complete its orbit in 2178, 248 years after its discovery in 1930. In order for a planet to be part of the solar system, it has to complete one orbit, and it has to massive and round enough.
You have to have quite the expanded understanding of consciousness to be able to sense their effects on our psyche through the warping of space time by mass. I accidentally guessed Caligo (Sedna’s) role in astrology and she kicked my ass for it. Someone had to put in the pain for that tidbit. The axial procession along the Zodiac. 😊😊😊
wait, if the sun looks that small to them, (i mean its already big but its small too idkidkidk) then imagine how big the stars you see at the night are
I love outer space, astronomy, etc.. I will explain facts about different dwarf planets…… TG 387 - TG 387 is a trans-Neptunian dwarf planet beyond Neptune, Pluto and the Kuiper Belt nicknamed “the goblin” because of its discovery near Halloween in 2015. TG 387 is one of the most distant and most mysterious celestial objects from the sun. It takes “the goblin” dwarf planet 30,000-40,000 years to complete an orbit around the sun! “The goblin” dwarf planet is believed to be 300 km in diameter, making it 1/5-1/6 the diameter of Pluto. 90377 Sedna - Sedna was discovered in November 2003. Sedna is one of the most distant, and most mysterious trans-Neptunian dwarf planets beyond Neptune, Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. It takes Sedna more than 11,400 years to complete an orbit around the sun. Sedna is believed to be smaller than Pluto in diameter. Sedna at its closest point from the sun can be 76 astronomical units away. Sedna at its furthest point from the sun can be almost 1,000 astronomical units away from the sun. Sedna will be at its perihelion in 2075-2076. Eris - Eris is the most massive dwarf planet ever found. Eris was discovered in the beginning of 2005. Eris is slightly smaller than Pluto and diameter. Eris has quite a large moon called Dysnomia. Eris takes 558 years to complete an orbit around the sun. Eris at its furthest point from the sun can be almost 100 astronomical units away from the sun. Eris at is closest point to the sun can be almost 40 astronomical units away. Pluto - Pluto is perhaps the most famous and most known of all the dwarf planets. Pluto was discovered in 1930 by American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh. Pluto was named after the Roman god of the underworld. Pluto was not named after the Disney dog. Pluto takes 248 years to complete an orbit around the sun. Pluto is smaller than the Earth’s moon, and also smaller than the country Russia. Pluto has 5 known moons Charon, Styx, Nix, Hydra, Kerberos. Pluto was observed by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft took 9 years to reach Pluto, and the New Horizons spacecraft was launched in 2006. Pluto will complete an orbit around the sun in 2178.
Space Engine randomly generates objects we don’t have good images of. But yes, Eris should be as white as snow in-game. Thankfully, you can make it that way with some simple code.
Dwarf planets are very underrated, Despite the fact that the kuiper belt is much larger than the asteroid belt makes it a very large surface to explore. Nice idea keep it up!
I love how smaller celestial bodies like Haumea and Chariklo can still maintain a ring system.
unlike quaoar, it has a ring outside its Roche limit meaning its unstable and will form into a moon
@@Planet_ten weywot:cough cough-
@@Planet_ten like Earth's ring was
@@texan_mapping-1836 it was very short lived VERY but yeah
@@Planet_ten in space terms, very short time is 100,000 years lol
Loving the soundtrack. And the dwarf planets, too, naturally
Dude, your videos are absolutely beautiful. Keep it up.
Thank you so much!
Facinating how many worlds there are beyond the main planets. There will truly be enough destinations for humans to explore in our solar system for several centuries. And even think about all the moons and dwarf plabets BEYOND our system.
What about ceres and hygeia they are in the asteroid belt
@@maxsenthil Forgot about pallas and vesta, which are bigger than Hygeia
@@erickmendoza3669none of them are dwarf planets but rather they are asteroids, Ceres is the only confirmed dwarf planet in the asteroid belt.
@@Inactivepaper ik, i was just saying.
Haumea is my favourite celestial object in the universe, thank you so much for including her!!!
Personally Quaoar is my favorite for his funny name and odd ring system.
@Saravai thankfully we aren't!
@Saravai Well, planets are named after gods, so we kinda already did that
@SaravaiHmm, maybe because Haumea is a goddess.
@Saravai I take those at a compliment, thank you for trying to be an idiot who was mad at me for literally saying something true
I don't care how they are categorised, I hate how little we learn about dwarf planets in school. Like I loved astronomy as a kid, but only after finishing high school did I really find out how incredibly large the solar system is and that there is more too it then the 8 planets and Pluto.
I'd say we don't learn a lot about astronomy (in general) in schools sadly.
I agree, once a few years ago, in 4th grade they only told us the names of the planets and thats it before moving to gravity and stuff, it’s highly overlooked, especially in American Schools. Thank youtube though
If these objects were classified as planets (like they should be), people would see them as equally fascinating places and not lesser insignificant rocks. Dwarf planets are extremely abundant out there, numbering over one hundred! We should learn more about them.
@@Jellyman1129 "If these objects were classified as planets (like they should be)" They shouldn't, since they don't fullfill the third criteria for the definition of planet.
"Dwarf planets are extremely abundant out there, numbering over one hundred" Source: trust me bro.
You're off by a factor of ten since there are 10 recognized dwarf planets in the solar system
@@durshurrikun150 The third criterion of the IAU’s definition is hot garbage and has been a laughing stock to science.
Another incredible video Stargaze!!
Thank you!!
did you know that Quaoar has a ring system outside the roche limit?
Stop copying people's replies
@@texan_mapping-1836 its an information tho
2:42 Is Makemake really that grey and has a large hole or black spot? I have seen images of Makemake which depicted it as a quite reddish planet.
That's a weird feature
It should be red. This simulation does not use accurate colors.
@@servantofaeie1569 + dont even mention Eris
Well SpaceEngine doesn’t necessarily do that for things we’re not 100% sure on (we have no images of Makemake) and for the most part, its Procedurally Generated
Also that Spot is an Eclipse from Mk2
Quaoar and Makemake should be reddish, not grey black, they are far more luminous than depicted.
And Eris' albedo is also high, it's far more reflective than depicted.
As I'm watching this sitting at my desk and drinking a soda, I like to imagine I'm on these moons sitting on a lawn chair, sipping my drink and enjoying the view.
i like how even tho so far, the sun still shines so bright
Definitely Underrated Dwarf Planet Candidates, You also Forgot Varuna, Huya, 2003 AZ84, 2013 FY27, Lempo Hiisi and Paha, uhhhhhh probably some more
Some fun facts too:
Gonggong is the Biggest Dwarf Planet Candidate (Its the same size as Charon, but not an official Dwarf)
Pluto + Charon have the biggest Parent to Moon Ratio
Orcus is also Called “Anti-Pluto”
Pluto, its moons, and Arrokoth are the only objects Beyond Neptune we have detailed Images of
Sedna is predicted to be even Redder than Mars
I edited it because I totally forgot that this was from moons and only included ones with moons
Ixion doesn't have a moon
@@HouseStudioReal you know what
I forgot that this was from their moons oh gosh
@@HouseStudioReal Also, it's doubtful that it is a dwarf planet, since it is not in hydrostatic equilibrium.
@@durshurrikun150 bro, almost all of the objects in this video arent dwarf planets💀🫨
@@HouseStudioReal They are either dwarf planets or candidate dwarf planets
Bro I know that shit is hella controversial, but I gotta admit that for me as long as celestial body is not a star,
do not orbit another planet,
and has achieved hydrostatic equilibrium I consider that body a planet. Great video!
Also that view of the Sun as barely stronger than other star is dang powerful. These planets are on the very verge of solar system. If I were one of them I would be afraid not to get gravitationally ejected from it, and then condemned to venture interstellar space for eternity having stars as the only source of the nearly non-existant light. Fascinating part of our cosmic neighborhood.
You kinds sorta have a point honestly, technically Our Earth wouldn’t even be a Planet thanks to the NEOs, but the NEOs are less dense than the Kuiper or asteroid belt
I don’t care that it’s controversial, it needs to be said. You definitely have the right mindset, just remove the “does not orbit another planet” criterion and you’re good!
If it’s a body in hydrostatic equilibrium and isn’t doing nuclear fusion like a star, it’s a planet. Round moons are planets that orbit other planets. This is called the geophysical planet definition. The experts already use this definition and have been using it for decades. It turns out, dwarf planets are the most numerous type of planet in the solar system. They dominate the outer zone and outnumber all of the terrestrial planets and giant planets combined! What a wonderful discovery!
Unfortunately, astronomers (who don’t study planets) couldn’t cope with having “too many” planets because school kids wouldn’t be able to memorize all of their names. Having billions of stars and galaxies is totally fine, but 12 planets?! That’s absurd! So in 2006, the International Astronomical Union tried to limit the number of planets to 8 with a nonsensical vote (completely insulting the scientific method) and really embarrassed themselves. In the field of planetology, nobody uses this definition. From that day forward, the International Astronomical Union became the IRRELEVANT Astronomical Union. The planetary experts all use the geophysical planet definition, which includes Earth, Jupiter, Pluto, Eris, Sedna, Io, Ganymede, Titan, Enceladus, and many more as planets.
m.ruclips.net/video/nItBncb8ORM/видео.html&pp=ygULU3Rlcm4gcGx1dG8%3D
The outer solar system (from the Kuiper Belt to the Oort Cloud) is the most unexplored region that has a lot of tantalizing secrets to reveal. I’d love to see a dedicated flyby mission to Eris or Haumea or Quaoar. There’s still so much to learn!
Great comment! 👍🏻👍🏻
@@DeltaHydrixianBy the nonsensical IAU definition, the Earth is not a planet. There are over 30,000 asteroids in its orbit. This is one of the many reasons I don’t use this definition, and plenty of others have followed suit.
@@Jellyman1129 What a strong, honest and thoughtprovoking take on the subject! Thx for Your comment, very eyeopening!
@@FizykaFilozofiaFuturystyka Thank you for your comment as well! I see great minds think alike. 😁
YESS finally!!! thank you
The Pluto is stil one of the most beautiful objects in space
For me it will be always considered as planet ❤
I would just categorize planets as giant planets (like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune), medium planets (like Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) and small/dwarf planets (like Ceres, Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake etc.), but not exclude the dwarf planets from the planet status (which is anyway nonsense because their category name even _comprises_ "planet"!)
@@goldfing5898Experts already do this. “Dwarf planet” was coined by Alan Stern in 1991 to mean “small planet”. So by definition, they ARE planets.
Unfortunately, the Irrelevant Astronomical Union completely botched it by calling dwarf planets something completely different in their big mistake of 2006. So it’s best to ignore them and treat dwarf planets as planets.
@@Jellyman1129 Their "excuse" for not adding Dwarf Planets as Planets is to keep some "Lil Kid Nursery Rhyme" not that complex. And also, because they want to maintain the number of Planets "stable." I mean that's fucking crazy and a thing Science should be ashamed. The "clear your orbit" 3rd criteria, has a lot of loopholes on it. 1 loophole is that if Pluto was located in the inner Solar System, it could have "clear" its orbit because the more your close to the Sun, the less space you need to "clear" and less objects near your orbit. While if Jupiter was located on a orbit near the Oort Cloud, I don't think it would have "clear" its orbit because is so far away of the Sun. Meaning if we discover this bullshit of "Planet Nine" then it would be a Dwarf Planet, even though it would be probably an Ice Giant or a Super Earth. Can't wait for them to give the excuses to add "Planet Nine" as a Planet. Plus, anyways, they said that to be a Planet, you got to be dominant on your orbit, Isn't Ceres freaking dominant on the Asteroid Belt? Then they come with the excuse of the Planet to be able to reflect, captured, or to disturb another object smaller than the planet. And that they shouldn't be objects to comparable size. Dwarf Planets in general don't get as fucking near as Rocky Planets, their orbits are so separate and far away though orbits crosses, their orbits are tilted. Even with Neptune and Pluto, the closest they can get to each other is about "16 AU," Almost as far Of Uranus is of Earth. And also, Planets in general has not clear their orbits. Jean-Luc Margot emphasizes "a planet can never completely clear its orbital zone, because gravitational and radiative forces continually perturb the orbits of asteroids and comets into planet-crossing orbits" and states that the IAU did not intend the impossible standard of impeccable orbit clearing. Its ashamed because we only classify Planets like this. Stars, Compact Stars, Nebulas, Galaxies, and other celestial objects are not classified like this. And they also used the term "pLaNeToiD" or "MiNoR PlAnEt" witch it means "Asteroid. Are you fucking kidding me, do you fucking think that Dwarf Planets has more similarities with Asteroids and Comets than they do with fucking Planets? Dwarf Planets are round, they have an atmosphere, and have Planetary size and mass. I dare to said that Dwarf Planets has more in common with Rocky Planets, than Rocky Planets has with Gas Giant. Either we add Dwarf Planets as a category for Planets, and we Divide Planets as "Inner Rocky Planets" "Central Gas Giants" "Outer Ice Dwarfs." Or Gas Giants stop becoming Planets and they become their own category as they did with Pluto. I also heard that the reasoning of not adding Dwarf Planets as planets, its political and also because of greed, but I haven't found enough evidence for this yet.
Too bad for you, you're not an astronomer and so you are irrelevant
@@erickmendoza3669 That’s exactly right. It’s ironic to think that ASTRONOMERS would be afraid of an ASTRONOMICAL number of planets. It’s just nonsense. PhD astronomers who are fully grown adults whining about their kids having trouble memorizing all the planets in school is so childish and juvenile. They need to grow up.
The third criterion of the IAU’s definition is the most egregious by far. Imagine we had the Solar System consisting of ONLY Earths in the orbits of each planet. The Earths closer to the Sun will qualify as planets and the Earths farther out will not, SIMPLY because of _where_ they are. Identical objects classifying differently is illogical. Any planet definition where Earth doesn’t _always_ qualify is a broken definition. We all know Earth should qualify as a planet in EVERY circumstance.
This “Planet Nine” nonsense is just Mike Brown continuing to boost his ego instead of doing science. It doesn’t exist, but let’s hypothetically say it does. If they discover it, I’m curious to see how the IAU is going to shoehorn it into their definition.
Pluto and Eris are dozens of AU apart. They don’t affect each other’s orbit at all. How have they not “cleared their neighborhoods”? And for the people who say “Pluto crosses Neptune’s orbit”, Pluto doesn’t come anywhere near Neptune either. It doesn’t matter that their orbits cross. Meanwhile, Venus and Earth are 0.3 AU from each other at their closest point. How have they “cleared their neighborhoods”? This double standard of what defines a “neighborhood” is basically a result of the IAU doing whatever it could to exclude the dwarf planets from being planets, and then retroactively trying to pretend the planets that qualify are somehow in their own league. All the planets have debris in their orbits, and in fairly equal amounts. Pluto’s orbit isn’t more cluttered than Earth’s orbit, it’s about the same. The only difference is that Pluto has more total debris in its orbit because it has a BIGGER orbit. We never define stars, asteroids, galaxies, or anything else in space by their orbit. We always define them by their physical properties, and planets should be no different.
The IAU likes to refer to dwarf planets as “planetoids” or “minor planets”. I don’t think anyone knows what the heck “planetoid” even means (half planet, half asteroid, maybe?), but “minor planet” means “asteroid”. We used this term back when we thought asteroids were small planets, but now we know they’re not. But the IAU just loves to live in the 19th century, only having eight planets and many “minor planets”. If the IAU definition admits that dwarf planets are different from small Solar System bodies (because dwarf planets meet two criteria and small Solar System bodies only meet one criterion), then why are dwarf planets given minor planet numbers? Those are only for asteroids, so why are dwarf planets also getting them? Do astronomers seriously think that dwarf planets are just oversized comets? It seems like it because they keep mixing them together despite not being in the same category. Their excuse is that “they’re both icy”. By that logic, Mars should be an asteroid because “they’re both rocky”.
Then astronomers get surprised when Pluto, Eris, Makemake, Quaoar, Gonggong, and Sedna are geologically active. That’s exciting for sure, but not surprising. People with a brain know that planetary processes on these objects aren’t surprising because THEY ARE PLANETS! They behave like planets because they ARE planets! Of course they’re going to be more active than objects like Arrokoth. Maybe they should’ve LISTENED to the planetary experts in 2006 before making a terrible definition!
The main advocate for what became the IAU definition was Brian Marsden, who purposely tried to demote Pluto and erase Clyde Tombaugh’s legacy. It was definitely a very political and emotional decision. We can talk more about that if you’d like.
More amazing visuals, even if they're more speculation-based than the video of moons of the full-fledged planets. The music was more Chrono Trigger than Mass Effect in this one, but that's fine by me. I have a feeling that a lot of these dwarf planets will turn out to have more than one moon, once we get a closer look at them. After all, Pluto turned out to have five, but Charon was the only one we knew about before this century. And even Charon wasn't discovered until 1978.
Thank you for this brilliant, informative, and inspiring channel
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Amazing video ! Chariklo is my favorite
Beautiful. Fascinating. And far from home, so terrifying as well.
I was shocked to find out Salacia was oval, but I mean it does have rotational period of 6 hours LOL
Lovely video
Thank you!
I Wonder How Haumea got its ring system, From A Destroyed moon or Debris From the Keiper Belt 🤔
Probably from whatever hit it and made it have it's rapid rotation.
@@SomeAT-AT yeah
Probably at Kay Jewelers
@@Omnywrench”Every Kiss Begins with Kay” Well Haumea is the Goddess of Fertility and Childbirth…
@@SomeAT-AT that could also be the reason Hi'iaka and namaka exist
Haumea is my favorite Kyper belt object. (Or Plutoid, as some have dubbed them.)
An now you all know that, I'm sure you'll all sleep soundly tonight. Your welcome.
Except you won't sleep well because I deliberately used the wrong you're there, Mwah hah hah haaaaa!
Finally! Another video
You forget also Sedna? Farthest Dwarf Planet On Our Solar System
No known moon.
I like that, while it comes at the cost of eye candy, we see accurately how LITTLE light actually gets to these dwarf planets since they're so far from the Sun. They're difficult to see unless the Sun is directly behind us. (We have no idea what they actually look like anyway, so the accuracy is appreciated.)
Are these revolving around Sun or rogue planets? They are fascinating 🙂
They are indeed orbiting the Sun!
Something else, some are even closer than you might think! Orcus, also called “Anti-Pluto” even crossed Neptune’s orbit, Like Pluto
Imagine standing on those worlds or their moon(s) and seeing the Sun as just another mere star, and yet, so far away, there's a single beautiful blue world, summed up by this quote from Carl Sagan.
"Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
That would be mental to process, being the furthest human being that has ever been away from Earth.
Love the pale blue dot! Carl Sagan is an inspiration
great job as usual!!! it's cold out there but one day...
You've been sub for a long time! Ty for the support all those years.
FINALLY THERE IS XIANGLIU AND GONGGONG, I'VE BEEN INTERESTED IN THEM SINCE YESTERDAY-
Haumea is my favorite notable object in our solar system. It looks so unnatural, while at the same time being a culmination of natural laws. It also looks like it's about to break apart, but is far from it.
Number of dwarf planets with moons: 4
Number of dwarf planets without moons: 1
Number of dwarf planets: 5
Most of these dwarf planets are very likely to have even more moons that we just haven't discovered yet, their distance from the sun means that their spheres of influence are quite big.
Finally someone listened to me
Where is Sedna? Isn't he a dwarf planet, right?
I included dwarf planets with moons in this video and Sedna has none
fun fact- gongong has a thin helium atmosphere!
I thought its atmosphere was made of methane.
False
Vanth - that's an Etruscian goddess.
Shows how lucky we are to have such a big planet for ourselves but we just keep destroying it 😞
Salacia looks like a dollar store version of Haumea.
Space Engine doesn't have Quaoar's rings? That's unfortunate
This is an older version. Pretty sure the steam version will have them soon to keep up to date with discoveries like these.
@@SomeAT-ATYes, and SpaceEngine gets Updated not that often
It does, actually. But they’re extremely faint. Just increase the ring opacity in the planet editor and you’ll see them.
wooo hooo
A dwarf planet called “TG 387” nicknamed “the goblin” is beyond Pluto and Kuiper Belt. TG 387 is nicknamed “the goblin” because of its discovery around Halloween in 2015. It takes the “goblin” dwarf planet 30,000 to 40,000 to complete one orbit around the sun, so it takes the “goblin” dwarf more than double that of Sedna’s orbital period around the sun at over 11,400 years! The “goblin” dwarf planet is only 300 km in diameter. The “goblin” dwarf planet is 1/5 the diameter of Pluto. The most massive dwarf planet ever found is Eris. Eris is a dwarf planet that was discovered in early 2005. Eris takes 558 years to complete one orbit around the sun, so it takes Eris more than double that of Pluto’s orbital period at 248 years! Eris has a moon called Dysnomia. Pluto was discovered in 1930 by American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh. Pluto was not named after the Disney dog. Pluto was named after the ancient Roman god of the underworld. Pluto will complete its orbit in 2178, 248 years after its discovery in 1930. In order for a planet to be part of the solar system, it has to complete one orbit, and it has to massive and round enough.
Actually, Eris is less massive than Pluto
Can you add sedna
It doesn't have any moons
I really want see sedna
You have to have quite the expanded understanding of consciousness to be able to sense their effects on our psyche through the warping of space time by mass.
I accidentally guessed Caligo (Sedna’s) role in astrology and she kicked my ass for it. Someone had to put in the pain for that tidbit.
The axial procession along the Zodiac.
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3:31 the planet and moon’s names were definitely made by the chinese
Make a simulation of what my planet Antias of the galaxy NGC 3333 would look like
wait, if the sun looks that small to them, (i mean its already big but its small too idkidkidk) then imagine how big the stars you see at the night are
yay
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Is this space engine??
yes
When I was watching makemakes part I saw something eclipsing it
Its either mk2 putting a shadow on the surface of makemake or just a dark mountain.
isn’t makemake red
I love outer space, astronomy, etc.. I will explain facts about different dwarf planets……
TG 387 - TG 387 is a trans-Neptunian dwarf planet beyond Neptune, Pluto and the Kuiper Belt nicknamed “the goblin” because of its discovery near Halloween in 2015. TG 387 is one of the most distant and most mysterious celestial objects from the sun. It takes “the goblin” dwarf planet 30,000-40,000 years to complete an orbit around the sun! “The goblin” dwarf planet is believed to be 300 km in diameter, making it 1/5-1/6 the diameter of Pluto.
90377 Sedna - Sedna was discovered in November 2003. Sedna is one of the most distant, and most mysterious trans-Neptunian dwarf planets beyond Neptune, Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. It takes Sedna more than 11,400 years to complete an orbit around the sun. Sedna is believed to be smaller than Pluto in diameter. Sedna at its closest point from the sun can be 76 astronomical units away. Sedna at its furthest point from the sun can be almost 1,000 astronomical units away from the sun. Sedna will be at its perihelion in 2075-2076.
Eris - Eris is the most massive dwarf planet ever found. Eris was discovered in the beginning of 2005. Eris is slightly smaller than Pluto and diameter. Eris has quite a large moon called Dysnomia. Eris takes 558 years to complete an orbit around the sun. Eris at its furthest point from the sun can be almost 100 astronomical units away from the sun. Eris at is closest point to the sun can be almost 40 astronomical units away.
Pluto - Pluto is perhaps the most famous and most known of all the dwarf planets. Pluto was discovered in 1930 by American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh. Pluto was named after the Roman god of the underworld. Pluto was not named after the Disney dog. Pluto takes 248 years to complete an orbit around the sun. Pluto is smaller than the Earth’s moon, and also smaller than the country Russia. Pluto has 5 known moons Charon, Styx, Nix, Hydra, Kerberos. Pluto was observed by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft took 9 years to reach Pluto, and the New Horizons spacecraft was launched in 2006. Pluto will complete an orbit around the sun in 2178.
Wait and sedan please include it
Beyond pluto is dwarf panet candidates asteroids that could be dwarf planets
some of these dwarf planets are moons in our solar system
i watch these videos like an ipad kid watches skibidi toilet
Since all of this is just artwork and not photography, there is no need for the shaking camera and rough zoom effect.
thank god theres no pluto
Elloooooooo
Sedna?😢
Sedna does not have moons
@@giorgospapoutsakis5271 thanks, I did not know that
Eris is not dark brown
Space Engine randomly generates objects we don’t have good images of. But yes, Eris should be as white as snow in-game. Thankfully, you can make it that way with some simple code.
ya aint stonen either of our asses
Its not make make btw its ma-ke ma-ke
One thing you got wrong is that MakeMake is reddish, and I think GongGong (Epic name) is too
I really waited for Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà (my favorite ❤), Farout and Farfarout in this video 😂 especially I wanted to see how Sun looks like from them