What is some distinguishing characteristic about Pluto?

Answer 1

The characteristics Pluto or any other planet has to support alien life depends on the alien life. No one knows what alien life needs to survive because there hasn't been alien life found yet.

Answer 2

Pluto has many craters named for Star Trek characters. Little is known about the planet because it is so far away from Earth. Scientists believe Pluto is covered in water ice and methane ice. Pluto is only one-fifth the size of earth,

Answer 3

Compared to the 8 major planets, Pluto was thought unique because it was a rocky planet, far from the Sun, in an orbit highly angled from the plane of the other planets. It also has a moon, Charon, that has significant mass, enough to make them effectively co-orbiting bodies.

We now know that there are many of these icy planets, called plutoids, plutinos, and cubewanos, that orbit beyond Neptune. They are part of the Kuiper Belt of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). Some are classified as "dwarf planets" and include Haumea, Makemake, and Eris (which may be larger than Pluto). Other objects near or past Pluto are the dwarf planet candidates Sedna, Varuna, Quaoar, Orcus, and Ixion.

Answer 4

No.

Life has to be based on carbon, as this is the only element in the universe whose atoms are able to join onto themselves in sufficient quantities to produce large complex molecules present in protein, carbohydrates, hormones and so on, and, of course molecules that can reproduce like DNA and RNA. Carbon-based molecules can only exist or function within a narrow temperature range. Too high and they decompose. Too low and biochemical reactions cannot take place. Pluto, as far as we know, has no appreciable carbon on its surface. Also, the temperature there is too low to form life, let alone sustain it.

Answer 5

If somebody were to ask, "What is the surface of Pluto covered with?" Most people would probably say, "Ice." They would be half right. It's so cold for a planet being far enough from the sun so that everything is frozen and the sun looking a little larger than any other star. The correct answer would be, "Frozen Methane Gas" or "Methane Ice."

Answer 6

some characteristics of Pluto are it has an icey surface and its atmosphere is mainly made up of methane with smaller amounts of carbon monoxide and nitrogen.

Answer 7

Not on its own.

Answer 8

No.