Dwarf planet

A dwarf planet is a planetary-mass object that does not dominate its region of space (as a true or classical planet does) and is not a satellite. That is, it is in direct orbit of the Sun and is massive enough to be plastic – for its gravity to maintain it in a hydrostatically equilibrious shape (usually a spheroid) – but has not cleared the neighborhood of its orbit of similar objects. The prototype dwarf planet is Pluto. The interest of dwarf planets to planetary geologists is that, being possibly differentiated and geologically active bodies, they may display planetary geology, an expectation borne out by the 2015 New Horizons mission to Pluto.

Dwarf planets

Name	System	Affiliation	SED	Habitable	Map
Banshee I	Banshee	UEE		No	Link
Bruder	Chronos	UEE		No	Link
Charon V	Charon	UEE		No	Link
Ellis VIII	Ellis	UEE		No	Link
Fora I	Fora	UEE		No	Link
K.au'u	Th.us'ūng	Xi'an Empire		No	Link
Kallis IX	Kallis	In development Fair Chance Act		Yes	Link
Kilian X	Kilian	UEE		No	Link
Kilian XIII	Kilian	UEE		No	Link
Kilian XIV	Kilian	UEE		No	Link
Nul I	Nul	Unclaimed		No	Link
Oretani VI	Oretani	Unclaimed		No	Link
Oso VI	Oso	In development		No	Link
Oya IV	Oya	UEE		No	Link
Pluto	Sol	UEE	90,588	No	Link
Rihlah VI	Rihlah	Xi'an Empire		No	Link
Shepherd	Tayac	UEE		No	Link
Taranis I	Taranis	Unclaimed		No	Link
Yām’ping	Yā’mon	Xi'an Empire		No	Link

See also

• Planet types
• Universe Portal