what are dwarf planets?
A planetary-mass object that is neither a true planet nor a natural satellite
Planet
A dwarf planet is a planetary-mass object that is neither a true planet nor a natural satellite; it is in direct orbit of a star, and is massive enough for its gravity to compress it into a hydrostatically equilibrious shape (usually a spheroid), but has not cleared the neighborhood of other material around its orbit. Alan Stern, who proposed the term 'dwarf planet', has argued that location should not matter and that only geophysical attributes should be taken into account, and that dwarf planets are thus a subtype of planet. However, the IAU accepted the term (rather than the more neutral 'planetoid') but decided to classify dwarf planets as a separate category of object.
mention a few mythologies on planet? The Greeks made each planet sacred to one among their pantheon of gods, the Olympians: Helios and Selene were the names of both planets and gods; Phainon was sacred to Cronus, the Titan who fathered the Olympians; Phaethon was sacred to Zeus who is the entity mentioned at last who was sacred to zeus? Phaethon was the son of the Oceanid Clymene and the solar deity Helios in Greek mythology. was he mentioned in any of plato's work? Yes - in Plato's dialogue 'Timaeus' what is that work about? Speculation on the nature of the physical world and human beings in the dialogue, what are the properties mentioned in it for the universe? The four elements -earth, air, fire and water were shapeless, mixed and in constant motion. what was its influence later on? It influenced the construction of the creation accounts in the Book of Genesis. who is the author of the book mentioned above? UNANSWERABLE
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Planet [SEP] Dwarf planets
A dwarf planet is a planetary-mass object that is neither a true planet nor a natural satellite; it is in direct orbit of a star, and is massive enough for its gravity to compress it into a hydrostatically equilibrious shape (usually a spheroid), but has not cleared the neighborhood of other material around its orbit. Alan Stern, who proposed the term 'dwarf planet', has argued that location should not matter and that only geophysical attributes should be taken into account, and that dwarf planets are thus a subtype of planet. However, the IAU accepted the term (rather than the more neutral 'planetoid') but decided to classify dwarf planets as a separate category of object.