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No, in fact it has the most elongated and tilted orbit in the whole solar system
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What planets orbit interacts with plutos orbit?
Pluto's orbit is more elliptical than the major planets' orbits, and every time it goes round it spends some years inside Neptune's orbit.
Why is Pluto classified as a dwarf planet rather than a satellite of Neptune?
It's not in orbit around Neptune, it's in direct orbit around the sun, so is not a satellite or moon of Neptune. Although it their gravitational pulls effect each other, Pluto does not go round and round Neptune.
What is an object that is slightly smaller than Pluto and orbits the sun beyond Neptune's spherical?
Pluto's moon Charon is smaller than it. Since they both orbit round each other, one could argue that they both orbit the Sun as a bi-planetary system.
Does the orbit of Pluto sometimes cross that of the planet Neptune?
Pluto has a highly elliptical orbit which is at a steep angle to the ecliptic.The ecliptic is the plane that contains the sun's apparent motion through the skies from earth's point of view. Pluto is a K.O. (Kuyper Object, an object from the Kuyper Belt, more like an icy comet than an asteroid). It does travel within the orbit of Neptune for a few years out of its long orbit, but never in a way that will bring it crashing down onto Neptune. Pluto is locked into a special harmonic relationship with Neptune which prevents that from happening. For every 2 orbits of Pluto there are 3 orbits of Neptune. They are never close enough to collide. Pluto spends the vast majority of its orbital time in the Kuyper Belt, beyond Neptune's orbit.
Why isn't pluto currently considered a planet?
pluto isn`t currently consider as a planet today because in 2006 scinctist decided that pluto is too tiny to be planet and it has a weird orbit and it also isn`t that round to be a planet.But I still want it to be planet but what can i do anyway
What planet's orbit cuts across another planet's orbit?
Pluto cuts across Neptune's orbit about once every hundred years. This is because Pluto has an ovalish orbit around the sun and Neptune has a round one.
What planets orbit interacts with plutos orbit?
Pluto's orbit is more elliptical than the major planets' orbits, and every time it goes round it spends some years inside Neptune's orbit.
Why is Pluto classified as a dwarf planet rather than a satellite of Neptune?
It's not in orbit around Neptune, it's in direct orbit around the sun, so is not a satellite or moon of Neptune. Although it their gravitational pulls effect each other, Pluto does not go round and round Neptune.
How come Pluto is not a planet no more?
Pluto is no longer considered a planet (however it is called a dwarf planet) because it failed to meet the International Astronomical Union's definition of a planet:must orbit the sun (check)nearly round in shape (also, check)has cleared its orbit area of other planets (here's where Pluto fails, as Saturn crosses Pluto's orbit every so many years)
What shape is the region that electrons orbit the nucleus?
It is almost perfectly spherical, in a 99.99999 percent Vacuous fashion.
What is an object that is slightly smaller than Pluto and orbits the sun beyond Neptune's spherical?
Pluto's moon Charon is smaller than it. Since they both orbit round each other, one could argue that they both orbit the Sun as a bi-planetary system.
Does the orbit of Pluto sometimes cross that of the planet Neptune?
Pluto has a highly elliptical orbit which is at a steep angle to the ecliptic.The ecliptic is the plane that contains the sun's apparent motion through the skies from earth's point of view. Pluto is a K.O. (Kuyper Object, an object from the Kuyper Belt, more like an icy comet than an asteroid). It does travel within the orbit of Neptune for a few years out of its long orbit, but never in a way that will bring it crashing down onto Neptune. Pluto is locked into a special harmonic relationship with Neptune which prevents that from happening. For every 2 orbits of Pluto there are 3 orbits of Neptune. They are never close enough to collide. Pluto spends the vast majority of its orbital time in the Kuyper Belt, beyond Neptune's orbit.
Why is Pluto not round?
Pluto is round. It is massive enough to have been rounded by it own gravity.
Why isn't pluto currently considered a planet?
pluto isn`t currently consider as a planet today because in 2006 scinctist decided that pluto is too tiny to be planet and it has a weird orbit and it also isn`t that round to be a planet.But I still want it to be planet but what can i do anyway
Why is a balloon not perfectly round?
This is because the material the ballon is made of is shaped differently. The ballon will stretch and try to achieve a perfect round shape, but can not due to limitations in the way the ballon is made. One can however buy balloons that are almost perfectly round when inflated.
Why is mars a planet not a dwarf planet?
It meets the criteria developed for planethood (devised primarily to weed out Pluto): big enough to be round, orbiting a star, and dominating its orbit. It's the last that Mars achieves and Pluto fails. Mars, though smaller than Earth, is much larger than Pluto.
Does seasonal temperatures exist on Pluto?
Yes, the seasons are caused by the elliptical nature of Pluto's orbit round the sun. In the summer period when Pluto is nearest the sun it develops an atmosphere which freezes out as it moves further away. At present (2008) Pluto has an atmosphere, it is 2/3 of its way through in its warm season and the probe launched to it has an objective of studying its atmosphere.
