Things and facts about Pluto Dwarf planet you should know

Here are things and science facts about Pluto Dwarf planet you should know. Pluto is a dwarf planet. A dwarf planet travels around, or orbits, the sun just like other planets. But it is much smaller.

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Pluto is named after the Greek god of the underworld. This is a later name for the more well known Hades and was proposed by Venetia Burney an eleven year old schoolgirl from Oxford, England. Pluto was discovered on February 18th, 1930 by the Lowell Observatory.

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For the 76 years between Plutos being discovered and the time it was reclassified as a dwarf planet it completed under a third of its orbit around the Sun.

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Pluto's orbital period is 248 Earth years. Its orbital characteristics are substantially different from those of the planets, which follow nearly circular orbits around the Sun close to a flat reference plane called the ecliptic. In contrast, Pluto's orbit is moderately inclined relative to the ecliptic (over 17°) and moderately eccentric (elliptical). This eccentricity means a small region of Pluto's orbit lies nearer the Sun than Neptune's. This is one of the most amazing facts about this awesome planet - Pluto Dwarf planet.

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Pluto is one third water. This is in the form of water ice which is more than 3 times as much water as in all the Earth’s oceans, the remaining two thirds are rock. Pluto’s surface is covered with ices, and has several mountain ranges, light and dark regions, and a scattering of craters.

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Pluto was first discovered in 1930 by an astronomer called Clyde Tombaugh. Pluto is a dwarf planet that lies at the very edge of our solar system. It takes the sunlight five and a half hours to reach Pluto, which is a lot, considering it only takes eight minutes to reach Earth. Pluto is only about two-thirds the size of our moon and is extremely cold, it is so cold that nitrogen and oxygen is frozen solid, its surface temperature is -233°C, so we’ve got no chance of living there.

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It takes 247.9 Earth years for Pluto to orbit the Sun once, which sometimes takes it inside Neptune‘s orbit. Pluto makes a full rotation every 6.8 days. It is approximately 5.9 billion kilometres (3.7 billion miles) away from the Sun. It has a diameter of 2,360 kilometres.

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Pluto has a moon called Charon, which is roughly one half of the size of Pluto. Well, it also has two other moons which were discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope, these moons are called Nix and Hydra; these are named after the Greek goddess of darkness (Nyx) and a nine-headed serpent that in Greek mythology guards the underworld.

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Sunlight on Pluto has the same intensity as moonlight on Earth. This is because it located so far from the Sun in the outer solar system – approximately 5,945,900,000 km.

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Either Pluto or Eris is the largest dwarf planet. The most accurate measurements currently put Eris at an average diameter of 2,326 km with a 12 km margin of error, compared to a 2,368 km diameter with a 20 km margin of error for Pluto. The atmosphere on Pluto makes it difficult to accurately map its size.

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Pluto’s core is predicted to be around 70% of its total diameter. This would put the core at around 1,700 km in diameter (1,000 miles). This is the truth, not jokes for fun we've misundertood as before.

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Pluto has an atmosphere sometimes. When Pluto is closer to the Sun on its elliptical orbit path the surface ice thaws and forms a thin atmosphere of nitrogen, methane and carbon monoxide. As it travels away from the Sun this then freezes back into its solid state.