Pluto: The Basics
Pluto's symbol is shown on this page. It looks like a P with a "L" curve at the bottom.
Pluto was discovered on accident, when Clyde W. Tombaugh (the person who discovered Pluto) made some error calculations, which led to Pluto. Fascinated, Clyde pushed on, and Pluto was discovered. All this happened on 1930, in the Lowell University in Arizona. This discovery was made through the Hubble Telescope.
Pluto is Hades in Greek, and Pluto is so far from the Sun, so it is in perpetual darkness.
Although Pluto isn't considered a planet anymore, it was 9th planet back in the days. the distance from Pluto to the Sun is 39.5 AU, or 5,913,520,000 km. From Pluto to the earth is 38.5 AU, or 5,763,920,000 km.
Mass: 12,700,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg (1.27e22 kg) Volume: 6,387,259,783 km3
Equatorial Circumference: 2,280 kilometers wide Mean Density: 2.050 g/cm3 Gravity: 0.66 m/s2
If you weighed 100 pounds on Earth, on Pluto ou would weigh 7 lbs. Interesting!! So basically, you would 7% compared to Pluto.
It takes 90,615 days for Pluto to complete an orbit around the Sun. A perihelion (how close it gets to the Sun) is 4,436,756,954 km. A aphelion (how far it gets from the Sun) is 7,376,124,302 km. A day at Pluto the days and 9 hours! Better grab the coffee!
Pluto was discovered on accident, when Clyde W. Tombaugh (the person who discovered Pluto) made some error calculations, which led to Pluto. Fascinated, Clyde pushed on, and Pluto was discovered. All this happened on 1930, in the Lowell University in Arizona. This discovery was made through the Hubble Telescope.
Pluto is Hades in Greek, and Pluto is so far from the Sun, so it is in perpetual darkness.
Although Pluto isn't considered a planet anymore, it was 9th planet back in the days. the distance from Pluto to the Sun is 39.5 AU, or 5,913,520,000 km. From Pluto to the earth is 38.5 AU, or 5,763,920,000 km.
Mass: 12,700,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg (1.27e22 kg) Volume: 6,387,259,783 km3
Equatorial Circumference: 2,280 kilometers wide Mean Density: 2.050 g/cm3 Gravity: 0.66 m/s2
If you weighed 100 pounds on Earth, on Pluto ou would weigh 7 lbs. Interesting!! So basically, you would 7% compared to Pluto.
It takes 90,615 days for Pluto to complete an orbit around the Sun. A perihelion (how close it gets to the Sun) is 4,436,756,954 km. A aphelion (how far it gets from the Sun) is 7,376,124,302 km. A day at Pluto the days and 9 hours! Better grab the coffee!