What is the description of Pluto?

Answer 1

Pluto received a new designation in 2006 as a Dwarf Planet, formerly a planet but now listed in the Minor Planet Catalogue. It is also categorized as a Trans-Neptunian Object and sometimes called a Plutoid or Ice Dwarf.

Because of its distance from Earth it is hard to study - but in 2015 a probe should reach it and give more detailed information. At this time it is assumed to be composed of frozen gas like methane and nitrogen, with a thick layer of water ice, and likely have a rocky core.

Answer 2

it is a dwarf planet or a kuiper belt object (huge astriod at the edge of the solar system) Pluto is an ice/rock planet with an atmosphere made of nitrogen and methane and has three moon. The moons names are Charon, Nix and Hydra.

Pluto Description:

Pluto was the Roman equivalent of the Greek god, Hades, ruler of the underworld. After many other suggestions and much debate, the dwarf planet was named Pluto partly due to its distance from the sun, which keeps it in the dark, and partly because "PL" are the initials of Percival Lowell, the man who found the existence of another planet and whose laboratory its discoverer, Clyde W. Tombaugh worked. Pluto was detected in 1930.

Dwarf planet pluto:

• Mean Radius: 1150 km
• Mass: 0.0025 (Earth=1)
• Density: 2.03 (g/cm^3)
• Gravity: ? (Earth=1)
• Orbit Period: 247.7 (Earth years)
• Rotation Period: 6.39 (Earth days)
• Semimajor Axis Of Orbit: 39.44 au
• Eccentricity Of Orbit: 0.248

Answer 3

Its temperature is less than 50 kelvin, it is no longer a planet but a dwarf planet, it is smaller than the moon, and it's the furthest "planet" in the Solar System, and it takes 4.02 hours for light to reach it.

Answer 4

Pluto is a dwarf planet located in the outer region of our solar system, beyond Neptune. It is known for its icy surface and irregular orbit, causing it to cross paths with Neptune at times. Pluto was reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union.

Answer 5

Pluto was once a planet, but as of 2006 it is now considered a dwarf planet.

Answer 6

No. There was once a planet named Pluto, but astronomers redefined what constitutes a planet and it no longer qualifies as one.

Answer 7

Pluto is a dwarf planet. It's the second largest dwarf planet of five in our solar system.

Answer 8

methane ice and not much else