Is Pluto a planet? By Evie

For more than 70 years Pluto was classed as a planet,until 2006,when the international astronomical union said it was a dwarf planet. They said that because they thought it was smaller than all of the other planets. It still orbits the sun but it is just smaller.

A man called Mike Brown thought that he had found a planet further than Pluto called Eris. Pluto did not meet the third criteria, so that is why it is classified as a dwarf planet.

 

Is Pluto a planet:) by Kezia :) ;)

  • Did you know Pluto was named by a 11 year old girl? 
  • Pluto was classified as a dwarf planet in 2006.
  • Pluto has not completed one orbit since it was discovered.
  • Before 2006 Pluto was was the ninth planet of our solar system.
  • Pluto’s full name is 134340 Pluto.
  • Pluto is the largest dwarf planet .
  • Did you know Plutos smaller than the Earths moon.

Is Pluto a planet? By Johnny

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.

IS PLUTO A PLANET

There have been many debaits and opinions weather pluto is a planet or not. But what i have found out that pluto is a planet but it is classified as a dwarf planet. Pluto is the ninth planet from the sun that means it still orbits the sun the same way that all the other planets do. Pluto is the smallest planet in the solar system. It takes 248 Earth years for pluto to orbit the sun.

FACTS ABOUT PLUTU

Pluto has five moons the largest moon is called charon it about half the size of pluto making it the largest satelite relative .pluto was discovered by clyder tombaugh in 1930 and was origanlly  considered to be the ninth planet fron the sun. So now i can confirm that pluto is a planet but it is clasified as a dwarf planet.