Pluto The Dwarf Planet

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Pluto The Dwarf Planet

• BY Madison S. and Sarah P.

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History

• Pluto was actually found by Clyde W. Tombaugh in
  1930.
• Ancient Romans believed that the planet Pluto
  was the god of the dead and the keeper of the
  underworld. He lived on the darkest planet
  Pluto.
• After Neptune had been discovered in 1846, people
  began thinking that what if there was a ninth
  planet. Neptune and Uranus had been moving right
  and thought astronomers worked on finding the
  ninth planet. Percival Lowell was the leader of
  this search and finally someone discovered it!

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Statistics

• Plutos mass or weight, is1/500th of the Earth.
  Its diameter is 1/6th of Earth.
• Pluto is 3,670,050,000 miles from the sun.
• The temperature is -360F on Pluto. The
  gravity is 1/13th of Earth.
• Pluto has three moons on its planet. The largest
  moons is Charon.

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Interesting Facts

• Pluto could fit inside Earth 50 times.
• Some people say that Pluto looks like a
  comet.
• Pluto orbits in a different angle to the sun than
  the solar system.
• Pluto is a little smaller than Earths moon.
  People thought it was a moon for Neptune.
• Pluto takes 248 days to orbit the sun.

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Physical Appearance

• Pluto is a far- off and icy planet . You cannot
  see it without a telescope.
• Pluto is a distant ball and is made of gases and
  rock.
• Pluto has large bright areas and frozen gases.

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Bibliography

• www.webpathexpress.com
• www.worldbookkids.com
• The Book of Planets
• Pluto a new true book
• www.kidsastronomy.com
• Encyclopedia
• www.worldbook.com
• Pluto
• Our Solar System
• The far Planets