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History• Clyde Tombaugh found Pluto on February
18,1930 using a telescope.
• A girl named Venetia Phair an English school girl suggested the name for Pluto.
Solar System
• Pluto is the ninth planet from the sun.
• The distance from the sun to Pluto is 5.8 billion kilometers.
• The Orbital period for Pluto is 247.67.
• The rotation around the sun is 248 years.
Moons
• Pluto has four moons
• The four moons names are Hydra, Nix, P4 and Charon.
• The moon Charon is the largest out of the three. Charon is half the size of Pluto.
• The moon P4 is the newest moon.
Planet appearance
• Pluto is grey, blue and has white spots.
• At night Pluto looks like a dusty rock but round.
Exploration
• The satellite that found Pluto was the Hubble Space Telescope.
• Pluto only has Satellite Hubble Space Telescope.
Interesting Facts
• Pluto revolves around the sun in an orbit is not exactly circular like the other planets. Pluto’s orbit is more like an oval shape or an egg shape.
• Charon (one of Pluto’s moons) is about half the size of Pluto and weighs about 7 times less than Pluto.
• Pluto is an dwarf planet.