Dwarf Planet Pluto

Pluto has orbited close to Earth and the sun during the late 20th and early 21st centuries. While Pluto is this close to the sun, some nitrogen with small amounts of carbon monoxide and methane that were frozen on its surface have warmed enough to become gaseous, forming a thin atmosphere. Much of Pluto's atmosphere is expected to freeze and collapse once again as it moves away from the sun over the next 10 to 15 years. The complete orbit of Pluto takes almost 250 years, and during most of this time the atmosphere is thought to be almost non-existant. Wikipedia has some additional information and a link is provided.

In 2006, pluto's classification was changed to "dwarf planet". This removed it as one of the nine planets in our solar system. It was done so by the IAU (international astronomical union). The main reason for this is due to the orbital path of Pluto as it crosses Neptune's and thus does not fit the IAU's definition of a "planet".

Clyde discovered Pluto with a device called a "blink comparator." In its time, it was top-of-the-line technology, circa 1930.

Full-sky or All-sky surveys were taken from time to time on old-fashioned photographic plates back in the day. Most stars move imperceptibly over several human lifetimes, because they are so far away; but planets, they are much closer to Earth. Even distant Pluto moved enough to be captured by 1930's technology.

The blink comparator focused the image of two different photo plates taken at different times, but of the same region of the sky, rapidly back and forth. Any planet, or "wandering star" from the Greek language, would manifest itself as movement in the rapidly changing views of the comparator. Easy enough for a human to detect.

Especially one so talented as Clyde Tombaugh. And that is how he found it.

None. Moons orbit Neptune. Planets orbit the Sun

The closest Pluto gets to the Sun is 4.4 billion kilometers, which means that light from the Sun always takes longer than 4 hours to reach Pluto. For a rocket vehicle travelling at the speed that astronauts went to our Moon (less than 40,000 km/hr), it would take over 12 years to reach Pluto!

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There's only one probe. That's "New Horizons" and it doesn't get to Pluto until year 2015. It was launched in 2006.

Now we come to the last planet in our Solar System, Pluto. The temperature of the planet is a frosty minus 233 degrees Celcius. The seasons on Pluto are quite long. A summer on the planet occurs when the planet is at its nearest to the sun and lasts about 50 years. This is also the only time when the planet's frozen surface of methane and nitrogen vaporize by the small amount of heat from the Sun to create somewhat of an atmosphere. By 2020, the atmospheric gases of Pluto will once again be frozen to the surface of the planet as it makes its way away from the Sun and will stay that way for more than a century. The long slugish seasons of the planet are due to Pluto’s 248 year orbit. For 20 years of Pluto’s orbit, the planet is actually the eighth planet from the Sun as it passes by Neptune’s orbit. Right now Pluto is ranked the eighth planet, but will only be there for a short time because in 1999 Neptune will regain its rank. Although Pluto may look like it passes through Neptunes path, it is actually millions of kilometers away.

Pluto is so lonely because its is the last planet in the solar system and it is so small. Also technically, Pluto is not really considered a planet anymore. So Pluto's so lonely because of all those reasons.

About once every 248 years, Pluto moves nearer to the sun than Neptune, and stays that way for about 20 years. This last happened between January 1979 and February 1999 and so it won't happen again until about 2227.

Pluto did not disintegrate. It is still there. The only thing that has changed is a new formal definition of a planet, and Pluto did not make the cut.

No, in fact it has the most elongated and tilted orbit in the whole solar system

If one can is 16 oz. wouldn't you multiply that by 36 (the number of cans in a case) and get your weight?

cans and bottles are listed by volume, not weight (ie Fl. Oz).

The contents may weigh more or less than 1 oz per fl oz.

plus there is the weight of the containers.

and 36 in a case?

No. The only world other than Earth where people have been is the moon. The first spacecraft to reach Pluto will be New Horizons in 2015; an unmanned spacecraft. Even then it will only fly by; it will not land.

No, there is not enough atmosphere on Pluto to breathe. Pluto is also too cold for a polar bear.

That depends on numerous factors. If you are adopting an infant, you can expect your wait to be longer...especially if have specifics. If you want to adopt through foster care, you can expect a wait of anywhere from 2 months to 2 years, again, depending on your specifics. For example, if you only want a white child under 2 years old, expect that your wait will be far longer. If you are fine with adopting a bi-racial, black, hispanic child who is 2+, then there are many more children who will be considered for placement....and you wait time would be on the shorter side. Most of your wait time is agency delay. For instance, once we completed all of our forms and background checks, it took 3 months for our child to be placed....BUT, the paperwork and background checks and homestudy took about 9 months to complete.

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Mars is larger than Pluto. Mars is the second-smallest major planet, the only smaller one being Mercury (which is also much larger than Pluto).

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Yes. It revolves around the sun and has a long period of revolution.

As with any other "how long does it take" question, that would depend on the speed. At the speed of light (which we CAN NOT even approach with current technology) it would take 100 years. At slower speeds, it would obviously take much longer.

The sun is not light years away but light minutes and the sun is 8 (rounded) light minutes away from us. But if you really want to know how far away the sun is from us in light years it is 0.000015 of a light year away from us.