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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.
2,286 Questions
How do people know about Pluto?
becuz we reseached it. We are students and we had a project we had to do for school on Pluto. So that's how we know about it
Are there chunks of frozen oxygen on Pluto?
We don't know. Pluto has only been observed from orbit. But it is definitely possible.
How long would it take for us to get to Pluto going 100 MPH?
The average distance between Earth and Pluto is 38.5 AU, or 3,580,500,000,000 miles. So, if we hopped in some kind of interplanetary car and set out for Pluto at 100 MPH, we would reach the dwarf planet in approximately 4,084,531 years. Talk about your long car trips!
How are russia and Pluto similar?
As a matter of fact, they are almost the same size!
Russia: 6.593 million mi2.
Assuming it's a sphere, Pluto: 6,6 million mi2. (now this is a :O WOW moment :))
Which criteria did Pluto miss?
When Pluto was demoted from a planet to a dwarf planet, it failed to meet all three requirements set forth by the International Astronomy Union (IAU) that define what a planet is.
As such, according to the IAU, a planet is a celestial body that:
1. Orbits the sun
2. Has enough mass to form into a (nearly) spherical shape
3. Has "cleared the neighbourhood" around its orbit
Pluto failed to meet the third criteria.
Eris is slightly smaller than Pluto, but has a greater mass.
One ligh year is equal to how many years on earth?
One light year is equivalent to about 5,878,400,000,000 miles on earth.
What would happen if you stood on your head while eating?
Your esophagus (the thing that brings food down when you swallow) uses muscles to bring/keep food down into the stomach, so your esophagus basically pinches together above the food and pushes it down like a tube of yogurt. If you ate food upside down, than it wouldn't just come right back out, it would still go down to the stomach like normal.
A meter is a measure of distance. There are 1000 meters in a kilometer. Thus 63000000 meters is 63,000 kilometers.
To understance the scale of that distance, the average distance from Earth to the Moon is 384,400 km so it is about 1/6 of the distance to the Moon.
Do moons have to orbit a planet?
Yes, because if they didn't they wouldn't be moons, they would just be chunks of rock or whatever they are made of.
Is Pluto only larger than Mercury?
Pluto is not larger than Mercury. Pluto is the smallest planet in the solar system and it only has a diameter of 1413 miles.
Whom does Dr Tyson credit with first noticing that Pluto was not included in his museum exhibit?
Seven year old boy will galmot
What is name the satellite of Pluto?
Two smaller moons discovered in recent years were named Nix and Hydra and another two remain unnamed.
How long does it take to communicate with Uranus?
Uranus is 1.7 billion miles from Earth.
Radio waves travel at the speed of light-about 186,000 miles/second
Therefore it will take approximately 2.5 hours for someone on Earth to communicate with Uranus.
