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Figure 1:Pluto

“ The Dwarf Planet”


After spending so much time📚 studying📚 about exoplanets and sophisticated things like as quasars,
it's time to brush up Knowledge on our own "SOLAR SYSTEM." This week, team "ASTROPHYSICAST" arrived
with extensive knowledge about the most polarizing, bizarre, and historically significant "Dwarf Planet" known
as "PLUTO."

 Pluto is the biggest known “PLUTOID” (The International Astronomical Union (IAU) established a
new dwarf planet category, plutoids, in June 2008. Plutoids are dwarf planets that orbit the Sun
further than Neptune, making them the “Kuiper belt's” biggest objects. Pluto and Eris are plutoids,
although Ceres isn't due of their asteroid belt position) and the first Kuiper Belt object to be
identified. “Clyde Tombaugh” 🔭discovered 🔭 it in 1930, and it was listed as the Solar System's
ninth planet for 75 years.

 Pluto is named after the Roman deity of the 😳underworld😳, who is the Greek cognate of “Hades”.

 Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra are Pluto's five🌕 moons🌕. With a diameter of little over
half that of Pluto, Charon is the biggest moon. It is a dwarf planet's largest known moon.

 The intensity of the ☀sunlight☀ on Pluto is the same as that of the moon on Earth. This is due to
its location in the outer solar system, which is roughly 5,945,900,000 kilometres from the Sun.

 Pluto does have an ☁atmosphere☁ on occasion. When Pluto's eccentric orbit path brings it closer
to the Sun, the surface ice defrosts, forming a thin atmosphere of nitrogen, methane, and carbon
monoxide. It then freezes back into its solid form as it moves away from the Sun.

 Pluto takes 246.04 Earth years to complete one orbit around the Sun.

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