Dwarf Planet Pluto

Pluto was first discovered in 1930 by Clyde W. Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona. Astronomers had long predicted that there would be a ninth planet inthe Solar System, which they called Planet X. Only 22 at the time, Tombaugh was given the laborious task of comparing photographic plates. These were two images of a region of the sky, taken two weeks apart. Any moving object, like an asteroid, comet or planet, would appear to jump from one photograph to the next.

After a year of observations, Tombaugh finally discovered an object in the right orbit, and declared that he had discovered Planet X. Because they had discovered it, the Lowell team were allowed to name it. They settled on Pluto, a name suggested by an 11-year old school girl in Oxford, England (no, it wasn't named after the Disney character, but the Roman god of the underworld).

The Solar System now had 9 planets.

Astronomers weren't sure about Pluto's mass until the discovery of its largest Moon, Charon, in 1978. And by knowing its mass (0.0021 Earths), they could more accurately gauge its size. The most accurate measurement currently gives the size of Pluto at 2,400 km (1,500 miles) across. Although this is small, Mercury is only 4,880 km (3,032 miles) across. Pluto is tiny, but it was considered larger than anything else past the orbit of Neptune.

Over the last few decades, powerful new ground and space-based observatories have completely changed previous understanding of the outer Solar System. Instead of being the only planet in its region, like the rest of the Solar System, Pluto and its moons are now known to be just a large example of a collection of objects called the Kuiper Belt. This region extends from the orbit of Neptune out to 55 astronomical units (55 times the distance of the Earth to the Sun).

Astronomers estimate that there are at least 70,000 icy objects, with the same composition as Pluto, that measure 100 km across or more in the Kuiper Belt. And according to the new rules, Pluto is not a planet. It's just another Kuiper Belt object.

Yes, Pluto is closer to the Sun than Neptune for a ~20 year period every 228 years. The last time it was closer to the Sun than Neptune was 1979. This happens because Pluto has an eccentric orbit that is also highly inclined, Pluto's size\mass is not directly involved in this process in any way.

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Pluto was discovered in 1930 and originally called a planet. In 2006, Pluto was re-classified to be a dwarf planet due to the discovery of a number of similar rocky, icy bodies in the solar system. To avoid increasing the number of planets dramatically, Pluto and similar bodies were re-classified.

Pluto is a dwarf planet located in our solar system. It was once considered the ninth planet but was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. A dog named Pluto is a cartoon character created by Walt Disney.

Pluto is located in what is know to be the Kuiper belt on the outside of our solar system. recently, scientists have discovered tens of thousands of other "planets" in this area, and many of them are as large or larger than Pluto Pluto has characteristics of a planet, like a moon, and an orbit, but because of its size and elliptical orbit, it is not a planet. It is actually the first member of a new category called dwarf planets. the newest dwarf planet is Eris which is slightly larger than Pluto.

Pluto hitting one of Neptune's moons would probably destroy that moon, leaving a bunch of debris scattered in the area. Over time, that debris would probably collect into a new ring around Neptune.

If Pluto hit Neptune, Neptune wouldn't be destroyed. Neptune has 10,000 times the mass of Pluto. There would definitely be some effects on Neptune, probably spraying debris into orbit and creating a new ring or even moon of Neptune. Also, the weather patterns of Neptune would be quite changed, so we'd probably see a bunch of dark spots or other changes to the appearance of Neptune.

Out of all the planets in our solar system, four are considered gas giants or Jovian planets. They are Saturn, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The ones that are not gas giants are Mars, Mercury, Venus, and Earth.

Pluto's orbit is not measured in light years as it is within our solar system. Pluto's average distance from the Sun is about 3.7 billion miles or 39.5 astronomical units.

The answer to this question can be simplified because Ceres is much nearer than any other dwarf planet in our solar system.

Ceres is in the Asteroid Belt which lies between Mars and Jupiter

All the other known Dwarf Planets lie in the Kuyper Belt passed and beyond the reaches of Neptune's Orbit of the Sun.

Ceres was then (1801) under mathematical scrutiny as to it's very existence and it's orbit was then unknown.

Ceres is only 580 miles across but from earth would be much larger visually from a reasonable telescope than say Pluto or any other of the Dwarf planets in the Kuyper Belt.

Ceres is the first ever asteroid to be discovered

Eris is a dwarf planet located in the outer solar system. It orbits the Sun in a highly elliptical path, ranging from about 38 to 98 astronomical units (AU) away from the Sun. It takes Eris approximately 558 years to complete one orbit around the Sun.

there are 3 dwarf planets and their names are

Ceres

Pluto

Eris

( they were in order)

The sidereal rotation period of Pluto is about 6.39 Earth days.

Therefore, 31 Plutonian days is equal to (31 * 6.39) = 198.09 Earth days.

Also note that 31 Earth days would be equal to (31 / 6.39) = 4.85 Plutonian days.

Neptune is brighter than Pluto because it is larger and (usually) closer to earth. There isn't enough differences in the albedo or "reflectivity" of the two planets to offset Neptune's size advantage. Even when Pluto slides inside the orbit of Neptune, which the dwarf planet does during part of its orbit of the sun, its smaller size does not permit it to compete with Neptune for brightness.

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2.9 AU or 257 million miles from the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Or for astronomy it's to the bottom left of Aquarius (very close to the sun). It's orbit is fairly circular and takes 4.6 years to move along.

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Pluto has been recategorised as a dwarf planet. Until its change in status it was considered to be the ninth planet from the sun. Though, on occasion, its orbit brought it closer than to the sun than Neptune, the eighth planet.

The earth takes 365.25 days to complete one orbital revolution around the sun. In one of nature's most astonishing coincidences, this happens to be almost precisely one year.

Pluto is like a major planet in that it orbits the Sun and has a spherical shape due to its gravity. It is also composed of rock and ice, similar to the major planets in our solar system.

The average distance from Earth to Pluto is about 3.67 billion miles (5.9 billion kilometers). Since light travels at a speed of about 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second), it would take a little over 4 hours for a message to travel from Earth to Pluto at its average distance from Earth.

Pluto did not disappear, but rather was reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union. This decision was made based on new guidelines that defined a planet as having cleared its orbit of other debris, a criteria which Pluto did not meet.

Pluto takes about 6.4 Earth days to complete one full rotation on its axis, which is equivalent to a 360-degree spin.