AppearancePluto is a small planet that is brown and white. It has white on it due to the ice that makes up most of the planet. It is even smaller than Earth's moon!
DistancesOrder from the sun: Was the 9th planet from the sun.
Distance from the sun in AU: 29 AU when it is at its closest to the sun, 49 AU when it is the farthest from the sun (The different distances are due to the extreme elliptical shape of the orbit. Check out how elliptical the orbit is under interesting facts!) Distance from the sun in km: 5,869 million km when close to the sun, 7,330 million km when far from the sun Distance from the Earth in AU: 28 AU when it is closer to Earth, 50 AU when it is farthest from Earth Distance from the Earth in km: 4,189 million km when close to Earth, 7,480 million km when far from Earth *AU = Astronomical Units (the distance from the Earth to the Sun) Planet MeasurementsMass: 0.02% of Earth
Volume: 1% of Earth Gravity: 0.58 m/s^2 (0.06 times the gravity of Earth) Escape velocity: 15,449 km/h (9,600 mph) If you weigh 70 pounds on Earth, you will weigh 4 pounds on Pluto! Orbit and Revolution
Pluto takes a whopping 90,465 days to orbit around the sun!
It takes 6 Earth days and 9 hours for Pluto to rotate once! That means that it would take Pluto 153 hours for one day to pass. |
RingsPluto does not have any rings.
MoonsPluto has five moons (pictured below): Charon, Hydra, Nix, P4, and the very recently found P5. P4 and P5 were only recently found, so they have temporary names. Charon is the largest of these moons.
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