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Dwarf Planet Pluto
A dwarf planet that was the 9th planet from the Sun in our solar system until 2006 when it was determined it did not satisfy the requirements of being a planet.
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What are the same about the earth and Pluto?
While vastly different in size, density, and environments, Earth and Pluto have some similarities : * Both have nitrogen as an atmospheric constituent (Pluto's is usually frozen solid). * Both rotate counter-clockwise (of course, only Venus turns clockwise) * Both have a moon that keeps one face exclusively toward the planet. (Charon's larger size relative to Pluto may be a cause of slowed planetary rotation.) * Both have colder polar regions that react to increases in solar heating (however, sublimation of ice on Pluto tends to cool the surface, whereas on Earth the reduced albedo prompts more heating)
How do terrestrial planets differ from the gas giant?
Terrestrial planets are solid and gaseous planets are made of gas. Gaseous planets are huge and terrestrial planets are small. Gas giants are far from the sun and terrestrial planets are close to the sun.
It takes about 248 Earth years for Pluto to orbit the sun.
What year will Neptune become the ninth planet again?
The IAU no longer regards Pluto as a planet so Neptunewill forever be our 8th planet even when it is farther from the sun than Pluto. However it will be another 230 years before Neptune is farther from the Sun than Pluto
How long does Eris the dwarf planet take to orbit the sun?
Eris, a dwarf planet located in the outer solar system, takes about 558 Earth years to complete one orbit around the Sun.
How much does it cost to go zip lining?
The cost of zip lining can vary depending on the location, length of the course, and other factors. On average, prices can range from $50 to $150 per person for a typical zip lining experience. It's best to check with specific zip lining companies for accurate pricing information.
Why is Pluto considered to have the weakest surface gravity?
Back when Pluto was still listed as a planet it was considered to have the weakest gravity of all the solar system's planets. Now that Pluto has been demoted from planetary status, the planet with the weakest surface gravity is Mercury. While Pluto's gravity is weaker than that of any planet in the solar system, there are still many non-plantery objects with weaker surface gravity.
What is the story behind Pluto?
Pluto is a little chunk of ice and rock out beyond Neptune.
Uranus was found by accident, more or less. William Herschel, who discovered it, was doing some parallax studies on stars, and when he went to observe the parallax of a star he had observed before, he discovered that it had moved significantly ... more than could be accounted for by parallax. He therefore supposed it to be a comet, but eventually it became clear to him that he had discovered a seventh planet in the Solar System. He called it by the rather ungainly name of Georgium Sidus (George's Star), after King George III ... Hershel was British.
Nobody outside of Great Britain liked this name much, and several other names were proposed, among them Herschel and Neptune. Johann Bode argued that since Saturn was both Jupiter's father in mythology and the name of the next planet out from the planet Jupiter, the next planet out from Saturn should be named after Saturn's father, Uranus. This name eventually stuck.
Studies were done of its orbit, and it was discovered that it wasn't moving quite the way it should, even after accounting for the gravitational effects of Jupiter and Saturn. It was therefore supposed that there must be an eighth planet out beyond Uranus (or, as the British increasingly desperately insisted on calling it, Georgium Sidus). The location such a hypothetical planet would have to have was calculated by a Frenchman, Urbain Le Verrier, and when the German astronomer Johann Galle looked, he found another planet within a degree of Le Verrier's prediction.
Galle suggested Janus for the name of the eighth planet. Le Verrier proposed Neptune, arguing that since he was the one who had calculated its position, he should get to name it. He then changed his mind and tried to name it Le Verrier, after himself, but this proposal was not well liked outside of France. French astronomers attempted to revive Herschel as the name of the seventh planet to give legitimacy to Le Verrier's claim, but eventually Neptune became the name generally used for the eighth planet.
Oh, right, Pluto. We're getting there.
See, Neptune's orbit didn't quite match up with theory, either. The success in predicting Neptune's existence led some people to attempt to repeat this feat by calculating the position of the hypothetical "planet X" that was perturbing Neptune's orbit.
It was calculated that planet X must have about the same mass as the Earth and be located in a particular region of the sky. Several astronomers looked in vain until Clyde Tombaugh of the Lowell Observatory discovered, by comparing photographic images taken several nights apart, a moving "star" that he concluded must be Planet X. He suggested it be given a better name than Planet X, but didn't propose any; Percival Lowell's widow Constance Lowell suggested Zeus, then Percival, and finally Constance but none of these were taken seriously (Zeus is Greek, while all the other planets have Latin names; not only that, but Zeus was the Greek name for Jupiter... "Percival" and "Constance" were disregarded for reasons we hope are obvious). The name was finally chosen in a contest; the winning suggestion... Pluto, the Roman god of the underworld... seemed appropriate for such a dark, dismal planet, and the fact that the name started with Percival Lowell's monogram probably didn't hurt.
This is a great little story of the triumph of mathematical prediction... except for one thing. The more we learned about Pluto, the less likely it seemed that it could possibly affect Neptune's orbit. Its size was revised downward from about the size of Earth, to about the size of Mars, to, eventually, significantly smaller than the Moon ... way too small to have any noticeable affect on the much more massive Neptune.
So what was wrong with Neptune's orbit? As it turns out, nothing. The initial observations weren't very good, and later observations and more precise calculations showed that Neptune was moving precisely as it should be, with no need for Pluto or any other hypothetical Planet X. The tiny little ball of ice and rock that we call Pluto just happened to be in about the right place at the right time for Tombaugh, searching diligently for anything moving in that region, to spot it. We now know that there are lots of bodies out there only slightly smaller than, or in one case even slightly bigger than, Pluto, and it was pure luck that one of them ... Pluto ... happened to appear on Tombaugh's plates.
Pluto is no longer considered a planet; it's officially designated a "dwarf planet", which means it's big enough for gravity to pull it into a ball but not so large that it "clears its orbit" ... in fact, its orbit crosses Neptune's, and Neptune so gravitationally dominates the region that Pluto and a group of other bodies collectively called "plutinos" are locked in a 3:2 orbital resonance with Neptune.
What number planet away from the sun is Pluto?
I do not really understand what you are asking but The Dwarf Planet Pluto is the ninth planet from the sun, it is believed that it is not even a planet anymore. Thank you for using wikianswers.com.
Are hurricanes plutos key attractions?
No, hurricanes are not key attractions on Pluto. Pluto is a dwarf planet located in our solar system, and its atmosphere is thin and composed mainly of nitrogen, with traces of methane and carbon monoxide. Hurricanes, which are large swirling storms, are typically associated with large planets like Earth.
How many earth's could fit in one Jupiter?
Jupiter has a radius of 71492 KM. The volume of a sphere (Jupiter isn't perfectly spherical, but neither is Earth) is (1.3333*pi*r^3) which is (to an appropriate level of precision) 1,530,367,760,220,138 cubic KM.
Earth is 6378 KM in radius, so the volume is 1,086,618,294,482 cubic KM.
(pant, pant, pant...)
(I'm glad I have computers to do this part!)
So 1,530,367,760,220,138 divided by 1,086,618,294,482 = 1,408.3 Earths would fit inside the volume of Jupiter.
HOWEVER.....
Earth is a rocky planet, with a density of 5.52, while Jupiter is a gas giant with a density of 1.33. That means that while Jupiter has 1,400 times the volume of Earth, it has "only!" 318.25 times the mass.
Is the planet Pluto falling apart?
Pluto is not falling apart. It is a dwarf planet located in the Kuiper Belt, and its surface is largely made up of rock and ice. While Pluto's atmosphere is slowly escaping into space, it is not breaking apart as a result.
Why is Pluto not always the farthest planet orbiting around the sun?
Pluto's orbit is highly elliptical, causing its distance from the sun to vary. Neptune, which is farther from the sun on average, occasionally orbits outside Pluto's path due to their changing positions along their respective orbits.
How many seconds will it take to send a radio signal to Pluto from earth?
there is no sound on the moon or in space, there is no air to vibrate and make sound
But...
Assuming sound could travel from the earth to the moon,
the moon is 3.9x10^8 meters from earth.
Sound travels at 340 meters/second. (or 3.4x10^2)
(3.9x10^8)/(3.4x10^2) = 1.47x10^6 seconds.
In other words, If sound could travel through the vacuum of space, It would take 1,470,000 seconds to travel from the moon to the earth.
This might seem like too much at first, but remember that sound moves like a slug compared to light. Anybody who has watched a fireworks show from across a lake or bay will know firsthand that you can see the light from the firework a fraction of a second before hearing the explosion. This is over a relatively tiny distance. (a few miles), as compared to the vast distance between our planet and moon.
How does it rate in term of the other planet in term of size is the biggest the smallest?
In order from biggest to smallest it goes Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Mercury.
How many of the gas giants have rings?
The ringed planets in our solar system are:
- Saturn
- Jupiter
- Uranus
- Neptune
Interestingly the Saturnian moon Rhea may also have a tenuous ring system making it the only moon known to possess a ring system.
Where is Pluto sedna and quaoar?
Pluto is located in the Kuiper Belt, a region of the outer solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune. Sedna is a distant dwarf planet located in the outer region of the solar system beyond the Kuiper Belt. Quaoar is also a dwarf planet located in the Kuiper Belt.
No, Io is one of the four largest moons of Jupiter, while the Moon is Earth's natural satellite. The Moon is much larger in size and mass compared to Io.
Has the hubble telescope passed by Pluto?
That is a very difficult question to answer with any amount of certainty. At that distance it would be impossible to visually see one but I don't see why not. What sends most out of the Asteriod Belt is a collision with another asteroid which could send one off in any direction. The Asteroid belt is a bunch of rocks orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter in a belt much like the one around Saturn only much larger and spaced out. Comets are much more likely to pass by Pluto since they originate from the Ooart cloud out past Pluto.
Can earths water cover Pluto's surface?
No, Earth's water could not completely cover Pluto's surface as Pluto is significantly larger than Earth's oceans combined. Pluto's surface area is about 16.7 million square kilometers, while Earth's total ocean surface area is around 361.9 million square kilometers.
In 2011, Pluto was classified as a "dwarf planet" by the International Astronomical Union. This decision downgraded Pluto from its previous status as the ninth planet in our solar system.
Why is the Disney dog named after Pluto?
Well. . . it can't be directly said that Pluto the dog was named after the former planet Pluto.
But what is known is that Pluto the dog first got his name from the Disney cartoon on May 18, 1931 called The Moose Hunt, where he is called "Pluto the Pup".
The makers of Pluto the dog claim the name has nothing to do with the planet, but it is still questionable.
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