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1 day ago · Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It is the largest known trans-Neptunian object by volume, by a small margin, but is less massive than Eris.
2 days ago · Pluto, large, distant member of the solar system that formerly was regarded as the outermost and smallest planet. In 2006 a group of experts in the scientific community voted to give Pluto the new classification of dwarf planet. Learn more about Pluto in this article.
- In 2006 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) removed Pluto from the list of planets and classified it as a dwarf planet because of its small...
- Amateur American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh found Pluto in the constellation Gemini on February 18, 1930.
- Pluto’s mean distance from the Sun is about 5.9 billion km (3.7 billion miles or 39.5 astronomical units).
- Pluto's orbit is more elongated, or eccentric, than any of the planetary orbits and more inclined (at 17.1°) to the ecliptic. In traveling its ecce...
- Pluto possesses five known moons. Charon is by far the largest, being fully half the size of Pluto. Pluto’s other four moons—Hydra, Nix, Kerberos,...
4 days ago · New research – released in May 2024 – suggests Pluto’s ocean is a little saltier and denser than seawater on Earth. If you could take a dip, you would float easily, scientists said.
4 days ago · Pluto is a dwarf planet with mountains, valleys, frozen plains, craters, and glaciers, located in the Kuiper Belt - a distant, icy objects region of our sola...
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1 day ago · Pluto is the largest object in its region, but it shares the orbit with thousands of other bodies. The final blow came in 2005 with Caltech astronomer Mike Brown’s discovery of Eris, ...
2 days ago · Pluto orbits far beyond the “freezing line” of the Solar System, where volatiles become solid. At an average surface temperature of -229°C, even nitrogen and methane become solid as stone. Calculations by scientists proved that the dwarf planet would have lost almost all of its heat shortly after formation, and it is cold to the core.
2 days ago · Pluto TV live TV lineup and schedule. See what is on Pluto TV tonight. Get the most up to date movie, show, and sports schedule.
