Dwarf Planet Pluto

Pluto was reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union because it did not meet all three criteria needed to be classified as a planet. One of those criteria is that a planet must have cleared its orbit of other debris, and Pluto shares its orbit with other objects in the Kuiper Belt.

One unusual aspect of Pluto's moon is that it is nearly half the size of Pluto itself, making it one of the largest moons relative to its planet in the solar system. Additionally, its orbit is highly elliptical and tilted, unlike most other moons that orbit closer to their planet's equator.

Aidoneus, Aides (meaning, like Hades, the unseen), Pluto (the rich one), Ditis Pater, Dis Pater, Dis(all meaning the rich one), Orcus (killer), Polydectes (the receiver of many), Clymenus (the Illustrious), Eubulus (the giver of good counsel), etc. He is the "one of many names".

Celestial bodies that orbit around a planet are called moons or natural satellites. Moons can vary in size and composition, and they usually orbit their parent planet due to gravitational forces. Some planets have multiple moons, such as Jupiter and Saturn, while others have none, like Venus and Mercury.

It takes light approximately 5.5 hours to travel from the Sun to Pluto, which is about 4.67 billion miles away at its farthest point. The time it takes for a beam of light to reach Pluto depends on its distance from Earth at any given time.

Pluto has been classified as a dwarf planet in the Solar System since 2006. This reclassification was made by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

On August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced a formal definition of planet that established a tripartite classification for objects in orbit around the Sun: "small Solar System bodies" were those objects too small for their gravity to have collapsed their surfaces into a rounded shape; "dwarf planets" were those objects large enough to be rounded, but who had yet to clear their orbits of similar-sized objects; "planets" were those objects that were both large enough to be rounded by self-gravity and which had cleared their orbits of similar-sized objects.[22] Under this classification, Pluto, Eris and Ceres were reclassified as dwarf planets.[22] Makemake is one of those "crazy" planets.

Your weight on Pluto would be approximately 4.5% of your weight on Earth, so you would weigh about 6.75 pounds on Pluto. This is due to Pluto's significantly weaker gravitational pull compared to Earth.

On July 14th, 2015, the space probe "New Horizons" will reach the dwarf planet Pluto on it's flyby. Your "easiest" way to get to Pluto is thus to do it mentally, and let that probe be your eyes, ears and hands.

That is, after all, the point of those probes. They are like a man on Earth using a telescope to save walking across a field. You've "got to" the other side of the field with a telescope as surely as if you'd walked.

On the other hand, we've rockets in design that might carry us the 55 million kilometers to Mars in a journey of about 30 days. Given that Pluto is 5,913,520,000 kilometers away (on average), we might be able to go there in about 8.83 years.

That would be a major undertaking, and would require the ship to be an enclosed self-sustaining environment. And it would be going to Pluto for no point. There are plenty of resources closer to home - the moon, Mars, the asteroid belt, even the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.

Frankly, Pluto is not likely to be ever worth the construction of a life ship that after 8 or 9 years would only see what the probes have already seen, and only be able to mine that which we could mine cheaper in the asteroid belt. One may well have to wait for population pressure and strip mining of all nearer planets, before it could be worthwhile. Say in the year 3,500.

Thus, I'm sorry to say, that the "easiest" way I gave at the top, is actually going to be the "only" way for your lifetime, and your grandchildren's lifetime. Barring some staggeringly unforeseen breakthrough in cheap and super fast interplanetary transport.

Pluto and Jupiter are both planets in our solar system. Jupiter is the largest planet, while Pluto was considered the ninth planet until it was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Both planets have moons orbiting them, with Jupiter having the largest number of moons in the solar system.

The simple answer is that it doesn't!

It will change what kids learn in school about the solar system but that's about it. For the scientists and astronomers it means they will need to take into account the definition of 'planet' and 'dwarf planet' when classifying new planets in the future or even reclassifying current planets/dwarf planets...

Hope that helped :)

Pluto's temperature varies, depending on its distance from the sun. This is because its orbit is highly elliptical. Temperature can drop to about -250 celsius. However, the average temperature is about -378 F. to -396 F.

Yes, sort of, Pluto has been officially downgraded from a planet. The four farthest planets are now all "gas giants".

99 ten millionths of a second. It would take sound 8.85 seconds.

The two planets farthest from the sun are Uranus and Neptune. Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun, while Neptune is the eighth planet. Both planets are classified as ice giants due to their composition of mostly ice and rock.

It is debated whether Pluto formed with the other planets or if it was captured while passing through the solar system. If the second option is true it would explain why the orbit it so erratic through the concept that it came from outside the solar system. However the orbit itself does not follow the typical elliptical pattern the other planets follow which seems to support the outside capture theory, however, there is no way to know at this point until there are samples taken from the planet.

Pluto's volume is about 1/115th of Earth, but its mass is only 1/455th Earth's. The gravity there is one-fifteenth of Earth's so a person's weight on Pluto would be less than 7% of their weight on Earth. Example : man weighs 150 pounds on Earth, effectively 10 pounds on Pluto (push-ups not a problem) Example : rabbit weighs 1.5 kg on Earth, only 100 grams on Pluto (even in spacesuit, hops over houses)

Uranus is a gas planet, consisting mostly of hydrogen and helium with a small rocky core. It belongs to the category of ice giants, along with Neptune.

13 moons,

don't ask why,

just there are.

Mercury's period of revolution around the sun is about 88 Earth days, while Pluto's period is approximately 248 Earth years. The ratio between their periods of revolution is about 1:28. This difference is due to the much larger distance Pluto is from the sun compared to Mercury, causing it to take much longer to complete one orbit.

The region beyond the orbit of Neptune is called the Kuiper Belt. It is a vast ring of icy objects, including dwarf planets, comets, and other small bodies, that orbits the Sun beyond Neptune. The Kuiper Belt is believed to be a source of short-period comets that occasionally enter the inner solar system.

It is often just referred to as The Palace of Hades.

The last space probe launched was the Tianwen-1 mission to Mars, which launched in July 2020 by the China National Space Administration.

On February 11, 1999, Pluto resumed its position as the outermost planet in our solar system, surpassing Neptune. This event happens due to Pluto's orbit, which is elliptical and not always within Neptune's orbit.