Pluto (over ten years ago) was taken out of planetary status. It’s distance from the SUN is currently 3,129,279,830 miles away. Did you know our moon is actually bigger than the Pluto! Amazing!
Pluto has a rocky core made of iron-nickel alloy and rock. It is thought that Pluto’s core has settled into a thick layer of ice. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this image of an intriguing “X” on Pluto’s icy Sputnik Planum region; the X probably marks a spot where four separate “cells” of nitrogen ice came together.
Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930. Pluto’s nearest planets are the gas planets like Jupiter. When Clyde Tombaugh built his first telescope at the age of 20, he could not have known it was setting him forward on a path that would eventually lead to the discovery of the first known dwarf planet, Pluto.
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