Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930. He was an astronomer from the United States
Pluto is not very big. It is only half as wide as the United States only 2,300 kilometers wide. This dwarf planet takes 248 Earth years to go around the sun. If you lived on Pluto, you would have to wait 248 Earth years to celebrate your first birthday. One day on Pluto is about 6 1/2 days on Earth.
For those who are unhappy about their weight, Pluto is a perfect planet because of its weak gravity person who weights 60kg on Earth would only weight 4kg on Pluto
Pluto, once considered the ninth and most distant planet from the sun, is now the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system. It is also one of the largest known members of the Kuiper Belt, a shadowy zone beyond the orbit of Neptune thought to be populated by hundreds of thousands of rocky, icy bodies each larger than 62 miles (100 kilometers) across, along with 1 trillion or more comets.
Pluto lies 4.67 billion miles (7.5 billion kilometers) from Earth. At their closest, the two are only 2.66 billion miles (4.28 billion km) apart.
NASA's New Horizons mission is the only spacecraft that has visited Pluto. Launched on Jan. 19, 2006, the craft arrived at the Pluto-Charon system on July 14, 2015, more than 11 years after leaving Earth. New Horizons passed by Mars, and used Jupiter for a gravity assist on its way to Pluto. When it passed within 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers) of Pluto's surface, it was traveling at a relative velocity of 30,800 mph (49,600 kph).
And for those who woud like to see Pluto ; Using actual New Horizons data and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, mission scientists have created flyover movies
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