Pluto
- Type
- Dwarf Planet
- Diameter
- 1,476 miles
- Distance from Sun
- 4,583,190,417 miles
- Orbit Time
- 247.94 years
- Length of Day
- 6 days, 9 hours, 17 mins
- Temperature
- -380 °F
- Atmosphere
- Nitrogen, methane, carbon monoxide
- Date of Discovery
- February 18, 1930 (Clyde W. Tombaugh)
- Moons
- 5
- Pluto was considered the ninth planet of our solar system for many years, until it was decided in 2006 that a new definition of dwarf planet should be applied to it. It was visited in 2015 by the New Horizons mission, revealing a tremendous amount of information about it.
- What important things did the New Horizons mission reveal about Pluto.
- Located in
- Solar System, orbiting the Sun
- Pluto is in the Kuiper belt, an area of objects that are beyond Neptune, and contian other dwarf planets and small objects.
- Its orbit takes it inside Neptune's orbit for a short time, but never is it at risk of colliding with Neptune.
- Pluto has 5 moons, and one of which, Charon, is large enough to cause it to form a special orbital arrangement where they face each other permanently.
- Its atmosphere is though to freeze during part of its orbit, and then unfreeze when it gets slightly closer to the sun.
