Dwarf Planet Pluto

They did not change the name of uranus it is a funny name for a planet but we had a long argument in our class if they did change the name of uranus to urinus

I did some reaserch but the did not.

Pluto's gravity is about 6% that of the Earth. A person weighing 100 lbs on the Earth would weigh 6 lbs on Pluto.

Pluto appears as a small, icy body with a reddish-brown color in space. It is significantly smaller than the other planets in our solar system and is located in the Kuiper Belt, a region of the outer solar system. Its surface features icy plains, mountains, and icy valleys.

Pluto's number is 134340, which is its official Minor Planet Center designation.

Pluto has three moons. Charon is relatively large at 1,206 km diameter, about half the diameter of Pluto, and was discovered in 1978. The other two, Nix and Hydra, were discovered in 2005 by a team using the Hubble Space Telescope. Nix and Hydra are estimated to be about 50 km in diameter. The "New Horizons" space craft was launched in January 2006. It is expected to reach Pluto some time in 2015 if nothing goes wrong, and a great deal more will be learned about Pluto and its moons.

Pluto's axis is tilted by about 119.5 degrees from vertical, which means it is essentially lying on its side compared to most planets in our solar system. This extreme tilt contributes to Pluto's unusual seasonal variations as it orbits the sun.

i think that it could have been once a moon of Neptune. because for one it goes almost partly around the planet neptune.and it could have had just picked up asteroids and meteoroids on it cycle around the planet and got enough gravitational pull. or it Coud've broke free and caught into another planets orbit Charon and now they circle around each other

Pluto is classified as a dwarf planet and is primarily composed of rock and ice. It does not have a significant gaseous atmosphere like the gas giants in our solar system.

No, Pluto has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit, which is one of the criteria set by the International Astronomical Union for a celestial body to be classified as a planet. Pluto's orbit intersects with that of Neptune and it shares its orbit with other objects in the Kuiper Belt.

Pluto's orbit is highly eccentric. When Pluto is at its minimum distance form the Sun, sunlight takes about 14800 seconds to reach it (just over 4 hours). At its maximum, the light takes about 24600 seconds (nearly 7 hours).

"Nixing" usually refers to rejecting or canceling something. It can be used in a variety of contexts, such as nixing a plan, idea, or proposal.

Yes. Pluto rotates on it's axis in 6d 9h 17m 36s. So nighttime on Pluto during its equinox lasts about 3 days and 5 hours.

Pluto is predominantly rocky, with some icy composition. It is classified as a dwarf planet and is composed of a rocky core surrounded by a thin atmosphere made up of nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide.

It is still known as Pluto, even though it was downgraded to a dwarf planet and given a number.

So really we should call it 134340Pluto.

Pluto is not the last planet technically. Now it is a dwarf planet as it became to small to be considered a planet. Pluto is not the last planet. It is called the last planet as it is the furthest away planet that orbits our sun. There are many other planets further away from us than Pluto.

You can find information on the distance from the Sun to Pluto on various websites such as NASA's Solar System Exploration website, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's website, or on reputable astronomy websites like Space.com or EarthSky.

The dwarf planet Pluto was discovered on February 18, 1930. It was discovered by an astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh who was working at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona at the time. William H. Pickerin contributed to Pluto being found.

What is unusual is that Charon is the largest satellite relative to its planet in the solar system. And that Charon is more than half the size of Pluto.

Actually the Charon/Pluto system might be better termed a binary system as the two rotate about a common center of gravity (their "barycenter" which does not lie inside either body but in space between them.

Pluto has three known moons as of 2009. Charon is relatively large at 1,206 km in diameter (about half the diameter of Pluto), and was discovered in 1978 by Jim Christy. The other two, Hydra and Nix, were discovered in 2005 by a team using the Hubble Space Telescope. Hydra and Nix are estimated to be about 50 to 150 km in diameter, with Nix probably the smaller of the two.

The distance between Pluto and Mercury can vary greatly due to their elliptical orbits, but on average it is about 601 million kilometers.

The Kuiper belt extends from Neptune'sorbit to three billion kilometers beyond it. It contains lumps of icy material with organic compounds. That makes them like comets. These lumps are called Kuiper belt objects or minor planets. The Kuiper belt may have formed when the gravity of the young Jupiter sent the Kuiper belt objects out to where they are now.

Mercury orbits the Sun at from .31 AU to .46 AU (46 to 69 million kilometers). Pluto orbits the sun at from 30 AU to 49 AU. (4400 to 7400 million kilometers). So both have a considerably elliptical orbit, but generally speaking Pluto is about 100 times as far from the Sun as Mercury.

Pluto's largest moon is named Charon. It was discovered in 1978 by astronomer James Christy. Charon is about half the size of Pluto and they are tidally locked, meaning they always show the same face to each other.

Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union because its small size and eccentric orbit do not meet the criteria to be considered a full planet in our solar system. Its classification was revised to better reflect its characteristics and align with new definitions of what constitutes a planet.