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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,...
18 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, a more massive object than Pluto (though denser and smaller) beyond Neptune.
2 days ago · 2006: Pluto declared a dwarf planet. The term ‘planet’ was redefined by the International Astronomical Union on 24 August 2006, relegating Pluto to the status of dwarf planet. Pluto had been ...
Pluto Facts. Pluto is the ex-nineth planet from the Sun. It is now classed as a dwarf planet, too big and too spherical to be classed as an asteroid but its path is not clear hence it fails the IAU requirement of a planet. There are so far 5 known moons (Confirmed) in orbit round Pluto.
5 days ago · In 2006, astronomers ‘demoted’ Pluto from a major planet in the solar system to a dwarf planet. But was Pluto snubbed? Our experts answer.
3 days ago · Pluto Has an Ocean of Liquid Water Surrounded by a 40-80 km Ice Shell - Universe Today. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this image of Sputnik Planitia — a glacial expanse rich in...
