Tenth planet (disambiguation)
Appearance
Tenth planet is a term formerly applied to possible planets beyond Neptune, before the reclassification of Pluto. It may also refer to:
- The Tenth Planet, the Doctor Who serial
- The Tenth Planet, a novel by Leo Melamed
- The Tenth Planet, a 1952 sci-fi radio play
- 3 Juno, an asteroid that was the tenth object to be identified as a planet before the asteroids were demoted
- 2060 Chiron, claimed by some to be the tenth planet upon discovery
- Charon, regarded together with Pluto as a binary planet
- Eris, which came very close to being considered the tenth planet, after Pluto; it is 27% more massive than Pluto and of similar size
- Many other trans-Neptunian objects discovered at this time, such as Haumea, Makemake, Quaoar (the biggest object found since Pluto and Charon themselves) and Sedna
See also
- Planet X (disambiguation)
- First planet (disambiguation)
- Second planet (disambiguation)
- Third planet (disambiguation)
- Fourth planet (disambiguation)
- Fifth planet (disambiguation)
- Sixth planet (disambiguation)
- Seventh planet (disambiguation)
- Eighth planet (disambiguation)
- Ninth planet (disambiguation)
- Eleventh planet
- Twelfth planet (disambiguation)
- Fictional planets of the Solar System