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Pluto the name in Romans

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Plutos name in greek came from the god of the underworld "Hades". the planet received this name because it is so far away from the sun that it is perpetual darkness and perhaps because "PL" are the initials of Percival Lowell

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