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P l u t o  Pluto is named after a Roman god from the underworld, not a disney character. It was origionally called Planet X, Venetia Phair, at the age of 11 mentioned the name Pluto and that is why this dwarf planet is called Pluto.  Astronomers have recentally calculated that Pluto's mass is 1.31 x 1022 kg (less than 0.24% of Earth's mass).  If pluto was closer to the sun it would be a comet. If somehow Pluto could be brought closer to the sun it would sprout a tail and become a comet. Pluto is the smallest planet in the solar system, smaller than Earth's moon, and half the width of Jupiter's moon.

It takes Pluto 248 Earth years to complete 1 orbit. 177 years left so in 2186 Pluto will have made it around once..   Nobody knows what Pluto's atmosphere contains, nobody even knows if Pluto has an atmosphere, most atmospheres contain nitrogen.



The average distance from Pluto and the Sun is 5,914,000,000 km, which is equivilent to the perimeter of 67,372,977.9 basket-ball courts.   Pluto cant be seen with the naked eye, even with a telescope the dwarf planet can be only seen as star.  Pluto is 4.5 billion years old. Thats the same age as the sun. <span style="color: #b616df; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Charon is Plutos largest moon, Pluto also has 2 other moons Nix and Hydra. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: #ff05a5; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; msoansilanguage: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidilanguage: AR-SA; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msofareastthemefont: minor-latin;">Some people believe that Pluto isn't a planet they think that this dwarf planet is a satellite that escaped Neptunes gravitational pull. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 292%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; msobidifontfamily: Arial;">

A day in Pluto equals to 6 Earth days and 9 Earth hours which is the second slowest rotation in the Solor System. <span style="color: #b616df; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: #b616df; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Pluto's orbit is 5,913,520,000 km from the sun (average).

Pluto is the only planet to be discovered in the Twetieth Century. <span style="color: #b616df; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: #b616df; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> The surface on pluto is mainly ice. 50%-75% is made up of ice the rest is rock and other materials. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">​ If you want to know what you weigh on Pluto you have to multiply you weight by 0.03. e.g: If you are 50kg you would weigh 1.5kg on Pluto.

By Kelsie Gledhill **
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