Dwarf Planets of Our Solar System

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• 01·Which dwarf planet is located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?
• 02·What is the name of Pluto's largest moon, which is so large that the two bodies are sometimes considered a binary system?
• 03·Which dwarf planet is the most massive known in our solar system and is named after the Greek goddess of discord?
• 04·This dwarf planet is notable for its extremely elongated shape and rapid rotation, likely caused by a giant impact.
• 05·Which celestial body was famously reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU)?
• 06·The NASA spacecraft New Horizons performed a historic flyby of which dwarf planet in 2015?
• 07·Which dwarf planet was named after the creator deity of the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island?
• 08·Who discovered Pluto in 1930 at the Lowell Observatory?
• 09·Of the five officially recognized dwarf planets, which one has the most eccentric orbit, taking it far beyond the Kuiper Belt?
• 10·The Dawn spacecraft, launched by NASA, orbited two protoplanets. One was Vesta, and the other was which dwarf planet?