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2 days 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,...
19 hours 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, ...
The planet is classed as a dwarf planet. Pluto derives its name from the Roman god for God of Death. Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. The Mass of the planet is 0.01303 (10^24) kg. The Equatorial Radius of the planet is 1,188.00km whereas the volumetric mean radius is 1,188.00 km.
5 days ago · And then, in 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) reconsidered Pluto’s status. In a controversial vote, astronomers — not planetary scientists — “demoted” Pluto to the status ...
3 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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3 days ago · On July 14th, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft conducted the first-ever flyby of Pluto, which once was (and to many, still is) the ninth planet of the Solar System. While the encounter was brief ...
