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If you were born before the '90s you probably know that Pluto, besides the much discussed dwarf planet that we are all so crazy about these days, is also a Disney animated dog.
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.
written into it.) Janet reads through the book as they pass the outer planets and until they pass Pluto, [a] leaving the solar system. When the class got to Pluto, the Sun (because Pluto is far away from the Sun) didn't look big anymore but it was a small yellow star. Janet then flips through the book and finds the instructions for the ...
Belton Regio (formerly Cthulhu Macula or Cthulhu Regio [1] [2]) is a prominent surface feature of the dwarf planet Pluto. [3] It is an elongated dark region along Pluto's equator, 2,990 km (1,860 mi) long and one of the darkest features on its surface.
NASA's New Horizons probe has returned the first color images of Pluto. The small blurry dots in the newly-released photo are Pluto and Charon, the largest of Pluto's moons. New Horizons captured ...
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There are at least 19 natural satellites in the Solar System that are known to be massive enough to be close to hydrostatic equilibrium: seven of Saturn, five of Uranus, four of Jupiter, and one each of Earth, Neptune, and Pluto. Alan Stern calls these satellite planets, although the term major moon is more common.
[3] [7] [33] [34] Pluto was held to be the ninth and outermost planet of the Solar System from its 1930 discovery until its reclassification from planet to dwarf planet in 2006; [33] some works from before the discovery of Pluto imagine a ninth planet beyond the orbit of Neptune, [16] and many works from when Pluto was counted as the ninth ...