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luto orbits beyond the orbit of Neptune (usually). It is much smaller than any of the official planets and now classified as a "dwarf planet". Pluto is smaller than seven of the solar system's moons (the Moon, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Titan and Triton).
Planet Profile
orbit: 5,913,520,000 km (39.5 AU) from the Sun (average)
diameter: 2372 km
mass: 1.303e22 kg
History of Pluto
In Roman mythology, Pluto (Greek: Hades) is the god of the underworld. The planet received this name (after many other suggestions) perhaps because it's so far from the Sun that it is in perpetual darkness and perhaps because "PL" are the initials of Percival Lowell.
Pluto was discovered in 1930 by a fortunate accident. Calculations which later turned out to be in error had predicted a planet beyond Neptune, based on the motions of Uranus and Neptune. Not knowing of the error, Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Arizona did a very careful sky survey which turned up Pluto anyway.
After the discovery of Pluto, it was quickly determined that Pluto was too small to account for the discrepancies in the orbits of the other planets. The search for Planet X continued but nothing was found. Nor is it likely that it ever will be: the discrepancies vanish if the mass of Neptune determined from the Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune is used. There is no Planet X. But that doesn't mean there aren't other objects out there, only that there isn't a relatively large and close one like Planet X was assumed to be. In fact, we now know that there are a very large number of small objects in the Kuiper Belt beyond the orbit of Neptune, some roughly the same size as Pluto.
Until 2015 even the Hubble Space Telescope was able to resolve only the largest features on its surface (left and above). On 14 July 2015 the New Horizons spacecraft did a flyby of Pluto after being launched.
Pluto has five moons: Charon, Hydra, Nix, Kerberos, Styx.
Charon - 1,208 km
Hydra - 55 km x 40 km
Nix - 42 km x 36 km
Kerberos - 12 km x 4.5 km
Styx - 7 km x 3 km
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Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It was the first and the largest Kuiper belt object to be discovered. After Pluto was discovered in 1930, it was declared to be the ninth planet from the Sun. Pluto has 5 moons. The largest, Charon, is so big that Pluto and Charon orbit each other like a double planet. Pluto is officially classified as a dwarf planet. When our Parents were in school they studied 9 planets the 9th one was Pluto now its too small to be a planet so now it is considered as a dwarf planet. The only spacecraft to visit Pluto is NASA’s New Horizons, which passed close by in July 2015. A year on Pluto is 248 Earth years. A day on Pluto lasts 153 hours, or about 6 Earth days. Pluto orbits the Sun about 3.6 billion miles (5.8 billion km) away on average, about 40 times as far as Earth, in a region called the Kuiper Belt.
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