why is pluto goes to our solar system
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Because it is a dwarf planet!!!
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Pluto is the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, discovered in 1930. It was thought to be the 9th planet of our system for 75 years until the discovery of Eris and other similar objects that led to its demotion from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006.
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It was the first Kuiper Belt object to be discovered and is the largest known plutoid. It was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh and was classified for 75 years as the ninth planet of the Solar System.
Since the beginning of the 1990s, its status as a planet was questioned following the discovery of other objects of similar size. After the discovery of Eris in 2005, Pluto was demoted in 2006 from a planet to a dwarf planet after the IAU defined the term “planet”.
Pluto is the ninth-largest and tenth most massive known object directly orbiting the Sun. However, when it comes to the trans-Neptunian objects, it is the largest by volume but less massive than Eris.
It is named after the Roman god of the underworld, the equivalent of Hades in Greek mythology.
It is made primarily out of ice and rock. It is relatively small compared to Earth’s moon being about one-sixth of the moon’s mass, and one-third of its volume.
Like other Kuiper Belt objects, it has an eccentric orbit. The eccentricity is moderate however and the orbit is inclined as it ranges from 30 AU to 49 AU.
Due to its orbit, Pluto periodically comes closer to the Sun than Neptune. A stable orbital resonance with Neptune prevents them from colliding. The light from the Sun reaches Pluto in about 5.5 hours at its average distance of 39.5 AU.
It has five moons: Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos and Hydra. Charon is the largest with a diameter just over half of Pluto. It is the biggest known moon of a dwarf planet.
The relationship between Pluto and Charon is abstract. They are considered to have a binary system relation since the barycenter of their orbits, do not lie within either body.
One day on Pluto lasts about 153 hours while a whole trip around the Sun is completed in about 248 years. Its moon Charon also orbits Pluto in about 153 hours never rising or setting, hovering around the same spot facing Pluto with only one side, a state called tidal locking.
It has a radius of 737 miles or 1,185 kilometers thus it is about 1/6 the width of Earth, and a diameter of 1,445 miles or 2,326 kilometers.
It has a surface characterized of mountains, valleys and craters. The temperature varies from -375 to -400 degrees Fahrenheit or -226 to -240 degrees Celsius.
Through the use of Newtonian mechanics in 1840 by Urbain Le Verrier, it was discovered that there were perturbations in Uranus’s orbit. After Neptune was discovered and its mass calculated, it was speculated that a larger object was needed to explain this, thus the hypothesis of Planet X was born. In 1894 Percival Lowell, a businessman and astronomer founded the Lowell Observatory and in 1906 he commenced the search for Planet X for nearly a decade until Lowell passed away in 1916.
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