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Truth about Pluto.


Pluto was first discovered in 1930 by a astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh.

Pluto is a dwarf planet located on the edge of our solar system.

It took five and a half hours to go to Pluto, so much, consider it only taking eight minutes to reach the earth.

Pluto is only about two-thirds of the size of our moon and extremely cold, too cold that nitrogen and oxygen are frozen solid, its surface temperature is -233 ° C, so we

It took 247.9 years Earth to Pluto to turn around the sun once, sometimes taking it into the orbit of Neptune.

Pluto made a full circle every 6.8 days.

It is about 5.9 billion km (3.7 billion miles) from the sun it has a diameter of 2,360 km.

Pluto has a moon called Charon, about half of the size of the match.

Is PLUTO a planet?

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I was careful not to call Pluto a planet at the moment because the actual Pluto was not a planet.

It was decided to return in August 2006 when 2,500 scientists studied the official meaning of the word "planet".

Researchers said, "Pluto does not dominate orbit around the sun like other planets."

With the current technology, they calculated Pluto's size and said it was not large enough to be called a planet, so it was called dwarf planet.

If voting in another way means there will be an additional 44 planets "out there have been discovered so far.

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So yes, with Pluto is a dwarf planet, all that really means in books, Pluto will not be classified as one of the main planets in the solar system.

This is the exact definition of a planet, agreed by scientists at that meeting:

Yes, that's all you need to know about Pluto, in addition to sharing its name with a Disney dog.