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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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How did basketball circulate around the world?
The first big basketball players name was Stephon Veransloff, a German. Im not sure but i think he was about 7ft tall. He and some friends got together and started playing every other day, and it turned into a tournament every year. They brought it to North America and then it very big there about in the early 1900's. That is what I've heard.
AnswerDr. James created basketball during the wenter of 1981 because he needed a relyable game that the students can play during wenterPluto the Disney character relationship status: Dinah_the_Dachshundreplaced Fifi the Peke as Pluto's girlfriend.
Pluto the god relationship status: Pluto didn't have a girlfriend- he was married to the goddess Proserpine. Her Greek name was Persephone.
He's also known as Hades
God of the Underworld and Death
Dont believe that it was created between 0 years and above. Nobody actually knows when it was created because of all the things that happend on earth. For example if we dont know the exact year that dinousars became on earth we will not know how earth was before or atleast not know the exact year that the event occured.
Why does Pluto differ from the outer planets?
Pluto has a solid surface of rock and ice. It does not have a vast gaseous atmosphere.
The four smaller planets closer to the Sun are basically solid or rocky objects, while the four largest planets are all gas giants with deep, dense, swirling atmospheres. Pluto's solid surface, onthe other hand, more closely resembles that of the small, dense planets.
The four outer planets; Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune; are all enormous planets largely made of gas and liquid. They travel round the Sun in nearly-circular orbits, widely spaced out. They all have rings and a system of many moons, and while asteroids and comets cross their orbits they are by far the biggest thing in their orbital zone.
Pluto, on the other hand, is tiny: smaller than our Moon. It is made up of a mixture of rock and ice, and has a solid surface you can stand upon. Its orbit is highly elliptical, tilted from that of the other outer planets, and it crosses the orbit of Neptune. It has a thin atmosphere, four moons, and no rings. Moreover, Pluto shares its orbit with thousands of other bodies ranging in size from "dirty snowballs" a few kilometres in diameter up to Eris, an object the size of Pluto itself. This region where Pluto orbits is now called the Kuiper Belt. Because Pluto is so different from the other outer planets and is instead more like the objects in the Kuiper Belt, Pluto was reclassified from a planet to a Kuiper Belt object in 2006. Some astronomers, however, continue to hold that Pluto should be called a planet.
Is Jupiter a planet or a dwarf-planet?
No. Jupiter is not a dwarf planet. Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Makemake, Hauma are dwarf planets.
What features have been found on Pluto?
I have deleted my previous answer to this one as I regret to say that I was badly wrong. A NASA probe called New Horizons was launched to explore Pluto in 2005 and arrived 10 years later, in 2015. It has shown that the planet is larger than was previously thought, about 2/3rds the size of our own moon, and has an interesting combination of cliffs, craters and huge canyons, as well as a frozen Polar ice-cap made up of frozen nitrogen and methane. It also sports a strange red spot in the shape of a heart.
Pluto has been downgraded to the status of a Dwarf Planet, as it does not dominate it's region of space as larger planets do. It has five moons- Charon, Hydra, Nix, Styx and Kerberos. The New Horizons probe has sent images of Pluto back to Earth, which can be looked up on the internet-as well as containing a number of sophisticated scientific instruments it also contains the cremated ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer who discovered Pluto in 1930.
What is the relative gravity of Pluto?
Pluto's mass is estimated at only 1/155th of Earth's. The gravity there would be 1/15th Earth gravity.
How long does it take dwarf planet Pluto to orbit the sun in years?
246.04 years to make one orbit of our sun.
Check out the New Horizons space probe if you're interested in Pluto - its on its way out there now to take close up pictures and other data. We shold know a lot more about this place in 2015.
Is Pluto is farthest dwarf planet from the sun?
- Planet: Neptune at 30 AU
- Dwarf Planet: Eris at 67.67 AU
The farthest planet from the sun is Neptune. The farthest dwarf planet from the sun is Pluto. The planet, Pluto is no longer considered a planet because of its size.
Which planet takes the least time to orbit the Sun?
Mercury because it is the planet closest to the sun.
How many hours is a year on Pluto?
Orbital period: 248.00 years; 90,560.0653 days; 2,173,441.5672 hours.
What forms of water occur on Pluto?
Triton is composed of approximately 13% ice.
Neptune's other moons also show signs of ice on their surfaces and potentially in their cores too.
It is too cold for any liquid form of water to exist that far out in space.
Would constellation look the same in Pluto?
No. Pluto is a dwarf planet, not a star, and is not visible to the naked eye.
Since Pluto is no longer considered a planet it is not likely to be able to determine equally the gravitational pull. On planets where the pull of gravity is greater than that of Earth, say Jupiter for instance, everything is heavier. A can of pop on Jupiter could weigh over 40 pounds. It is not likely that our bone structure could survive such a difference in gravity, but imagine being a Jupiter native visiting Earth. You'd feel light as a feather.
Jupiter is an inanimate object, neither male nor female. It was named after the male Roman god of the sky.
Why is Pluto to called a dwarf planet?
Pluto is considered a dwarf planet because A., it is the smallest planet (now not considered a planet anymore) in the Milky Way and B., because a larger planet was discovered to be behind it. Therefore, Pluto is no longer officially a planet, and is now a "dwarf" planet, compared to the others.
Pluto was discovered in 1930, and recognised then as being the ninth planet. Over more recent years though, more and more objects like Pluto were discovered further out. They approached the size of Pluto, or in the case of Eris, thought to be even larger.
Astronomers were faced with a dilemma, either we kept adding planets to the list, or we had to redefine what a planet actually was. In 2006, a new definition for a planet was established. It had to be approximately round, it had to orbit the sun and it had to have cleared its orbit of all other objects - so that at that distance from the sun, there were no other sizable bodies. Pluto is not large enough to have done the latter, while all other remaining planets have, so it was downgraded to a dwarf planet.
To orbit a stellar body is to be circling around it in an "orbit," captured by its gravity, but still traveling fast enough to maintain distance without falling onto the surface of the body being orbited.
Pluto's thin atmosphere mainly consists of nitrogen, with minor amounts of methane and carbon monoxide. It is not considered a gas giant like Jupiter or Saturn due to its small size and low gravity, which prevents it from holding onto thick layers of gas.
Actually, yes it does. Pluto, because of its lopsided orbit, crosses paths and goes in front of Neptune once every 288 years. It probably is once every 288 years because Pluto orbits the Sun once after 248 years.
