Pluto's highly elliptical orbit sometimes brings it closer to the sun than Neptune. Though it should be noted that since Pluto is no longer considered a planet, the furthest planet from the sun is Neptune.
Sedna is the most distant solar system object discovered so far. It is about three times farther away than Pluto currently is. Because it is so far away, scientists are not sure if it has enough mass to be classified as a dwarf planet.
There were a total of nine planets in the solar system when Pluto was considered a planet.
Mercury is the smallest of the 8 "major planets" with about 5.5% of the mass of Earth. It is smaller but more massive than the largest moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Pluto is now considered a "dwarf planet" along with the asteroid Ceres and three other very distant Kuiper Belt objects.
No. Its not even the biggest dwarf planet.
No. Pluto is a dwarf planet of our solar system
Pluto, it is now a dwarf planet or planetoid.
In 1930, Pluto was considered to be the ninth planet from the Sun.But, after the discovery of similar worlds deeper in the distant of the Kuiper Belt, icy Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet. Which meant that Pluto was demoted (a very controversial decision) and was no longer considered a planet in our solar system, which I think was a shame.
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No, there are a lot of objects more distant than Pluto. Sedna, probably a dwarf planet, has an aphelion of about 31 times the distance of Neptune. Long period comets are thought to be even further out. The Oort cloud, which is part of the solar system, lies at its edge at 50,000 AUs distant.
Acually Pluto is a Dwarf planet.
Sedna is the most distant solar system object discovered so far. It is about three times farther away than Pluto currently is. Because it is so far away, scientists are not sure if it has enough mass to be classified as a dwarf planet.
Pluto used to be the outermost planet, except that sometimes it became Neptune because Pluto's elliptical orbit is far from circular. From 1979 to 1999 Neptune was the farthest planet from the Sun and remains the farthest from the Sun today, because Pluto us no longer defined as a planet.
There were a total of nine planets in the solar system when Pluto was considered a planet.
The most distant planet in our solar system is Neptune. It is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun, with an average distance of about 4.5 billion kilometers (2.8 billion miles) from the Sun. Neptune is a gas giant, similar in composition to Uranus, and it has a blue color due to the presence of methane in its atmosphere.
Mercury is the smallest planet in our solar system after Pluto.
Pluto is no longer a planet it is now a dwarf planet. There are only 8 planets in our Solar System.
It is undecided whether Charon is Pluto's moon or if it is in a binary planet system with Pluto (which is actually a dwarf planet). But using Pluto's orbit, it takes about 248 Earth years (90,613 days) to orbit the Sun completely.