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Orbit and Planetology
Discovery and Missions
Misc.
100
This dwarf planet has the shortest sidereal period.
What is Haumea?
100
This person discovered Makemake, Eris, and Haumea.
Who is Mike Brown?
100
These two bodies create the double dwarf planet system by the Neptunian orbit.
What are Pluto and Charon?
200
Pluto's surface consists mainly of this element.
What is nitrogen?
200
This happened in the scientific community when Eris was discovered.
What was the debate over the definition of a planet and creation of the category of dwarf planets by the IAU?
200
This is the name of Eris' moon.
What is Dysnomia?
300
Traces of this substance on Ceres are rare in the Solar System.
What are carbonates?
300
This person was the first to accurately predict the location of Pluto.
Who was William Henry Pickering?
300
These two official dwarf planets do not have moons.
What are Makemake and Ceres?
400
This is the smallest of the five official dwarf planets.
What is Ceres?
400
These teachings developed out of the calculations for the position of Ceres.
What is modern linear algebra?
400
These are the names of Haumea's moons.
What are Hi'aka and Namaka?
500
This substance gives Makemake its reddish color.
What is tholin?
500
This is the way that one guy lost track of Ceres. How is it possible to lose an entire planet smh
What is Ceres entering the halo of the Sun and being outshone by the sunlight, making it impossible for Piazzi to see?
500
This was the patron goddess of Hawaii.
Who was Hi'aka?