Q: What are small planets in our solar system called?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

Eris is the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system. It is 27 percent larger than Pluto ( Figure above ). Like Pluto and Makemake, Eris is in the Kuiper belt. But Eris is about 3 times farther from the Sun than Pluto. Because of its distance, Eris was not discovered until 2005. Early on, it was thought that Eris might be the tenth planet. Its discovery helped astronomers realize that they needed a new definition of “planet. ” Eris has a small moon, Dysnomia. Its moon orbits Eris once about every 16 days.

 Choices:

- scrub planets

- Tiny planets

- light planets

- dwarf planets


A:
dwarf planets