The Solar System’s Forgotten Planets

Would you believe there are 40 planets are in our Solar System? If you ask the IAU - the International Astronomical Union - there are only 8, but that might not be the best possible answer. If we take a more physics-based definition of what makes a planet a planet, we might have at least 40 planets in our Solar System, and maybe many more! Learn about these forgotten planetary bodies and what makes them so amazing - with some help from New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern. Let’s explore! Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:20 What is a planet? 2:46 The planetary bodies 3:44 The big asteroids 4:42 The icy dwarfs 6:37 The 7 big moons 8:15 The other round moons 9:24 Conclusions Media Credits: Sagittarius A*: EHT Collaboration, CC BY 4.0 Kuiper Belt: by European Southern Observatory, CC BY 2.0 21 Lutetia: ESA / MPS / OSIRIS Team / Kevin Gill, CC BY 2.0 10 Hygiea: ESO/P. Vernazza et al./MISTRAL algorithm (ONERA/CNRS) Rhea Silvia Sclupture: Sailk