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Uranus
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gaseous cyan-coloured ice giant. Most of the planet is made of water, ammonia, and methane in a supercritical phase of matter, which astronomy calls "ice" or volatiles. The planet's atmosphere has a complex layered cloud structure and has the lowest minimum temperature () of all the Solar System's planets. It has a marked axial tilt of 82.23° with a retrograde rotation period of 17 hours and 14 minutes. This means that in an 84-Earth-year orbital period around the Sun, its poles get around 42 years of continuous sunlight, followed by 42 years
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Pluto
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Ceres
dwarf planet in the Solar System and largest asteroid of the main asteroid belt
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Eris
dwarf planet in the Solar System
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136472 Makemake
Makemake (minor-planet designation: 136472 Makemake) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a disk of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the fourth largest trans-Neptunian object and the largest member of the classical Kuiper belt, having a diameter 60% that of Pluto. It was discovered on March 31, 2005 by American astronomers Michael E. ("Mike") Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David Rabinowitz at Palomar Observatory. As one of the largest objects found by this team, the discovery of Makemake contributed to the reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet in 2006.
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Haumea
Haumea (minor-planet designation: 136108 Haumea) is a dwarf planet located beyond Neptune's orbit. It was discovered in 2004 by a team headed by Mike Brown of Caltech at the Palomar Observatory, and formally announced in 2005 by a team headed by José Luis Ortiz Moreno at the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Spain, who had discovered it that year in precovery images taken by the team in 2003. From that announcement, it received the provisional designation .
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Triton
largest moon of Neptune
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2 Pallas
large asteroid of the main asteroid belt
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Charon
largest natural satellite of Pluto
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3 Juno
large asteroid in the asteroid belt, the third asteroid discovered, in 1804, by German astronomer Karl Harding
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Quaoar
Quaoar (minor-planet designation: 50000 Quaoar) is a ringed dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a band of icy planetesimals beyond Neptune. It has a slightly ellipsoidal shape with an average diameter of , about half the size of the dwarf planet Pluto. The object was discovered by American astronomers Chad Trujillo and Michael Brown at Palomar Observatory on 4 June 2002. Quaoar has a reddish surface made of crystalline water ice, tholins, and traces of frozen methane.
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6 Hebe
main-belt asteroid
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Larissa
moon of Neptune
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486958 Arrokoth
classical trans-Neptunian object
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13 Egeria
main-belt asteroid
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20000 Varuna
Kuiper belt object
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Kallichore
moon of Jupiter
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90 Antiope
main-belt double asteroid
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48 Doris
main-belt asteroid
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704 Interamnia
main-belt asteroid
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100 Hekate
main-belt asteroid
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121 Hermione
outer main-belt asteroid
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109 Felicitas
main-belt asteroid
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65 Cybele
outer main-belt asteroid
51 Nemausa thumbnail
51 Nemausa
main-belt asteroid
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106 Dione
main-belt asteroid
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94 Aurora
main-belt asteroid
113 Amalthea thumbnail
113 Amalthea
main-belt asteroid
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85 Io
main-belt asteroid
93 Minerva thumbnail
93 Minerva
main-belt asteroid
124 Alkeste thumbnail
124 Alkeste
main-belt asteroid
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96 Aegle
main-belt asteroid
110 Lydia thumbnail
110 Lydia
main-belt asteroid
129 Antigone thumbnail
129 Antigone
main-belt asteroid
139 Juewa thumbnail
139 Juewa
main-belt asteroid
39 Laetitia thumbnail
39 Laetitia
main-belt asteroid
143 Adria thumbnail
143 Adria
main-belt asteroid
117 Lomia thumbnail
117 Lomia
main-belt asteroid
153 Hilda thumbnail
153 Hilda
outer main-belt asteroid
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148 Gallia
main-belt asteroid
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125 Liberatrix
main-belt asteroid
170 Maria thumbnail
170 Maria
main-belt asteroid
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Hiʻiaka
natural satellite of the dwarf planet Haumea
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118 Peitho
main-belt asteroid
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105 Artemis
main-belt asteroid
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164 Eva
main-belt asteroid
159 Aemilia thumbnail
159 Aemilia
main-belt asteroid
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135 Hertha
main-belt asteroid
162 Laurentia thumbnail
162 Laurentia
main-belt asteroid
192 Nausikaa
main-belt asteroid
145 Adeona thumbnail
145 Adeona
main-belt asteroid
147 Protogeneia thumbnail
147 Protogeneia
main-belt asteroid
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95 Arethusa
main-belt asteroid
146 Lucina
main-belt asteroid
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152 Atala
asteroid
131 Vala thumbnail
131 Vala
main-belt asteroid
230 Athamantis thumbnail
230 Athamantis
main-belt asteroid
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617 Patroclus
Jupiter trojan
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194 Prokne
main-belt asteroid
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163 Erigone
main-belt asteroid