PLUTO REPORT

PLUTO'S LOCATION

• A 11 year girl named Venetia Burney named Pluto after the Roman God of the underworld.
• Pluto is the ninth planet from the Sun.
• Pluto is located in Kuiper belt.
• Pluto is 3,670,050,000 miles from the Sun.
• It is a outer planet and changed to dwarf planet in 2008.

WHAT PLUTO IS MADE OF

• Pluto is a rocky planet.
• It is a very small planet.
• It is made of hydrogen, helium, and methane.
• Pluto's surface is made mostly of ice but has a rocky core.
• It is more rocky than it's fellow gas giants neighbor planets.
• Pluto's colors are brown, with black and orange light and dark spots.

PLUTO'S SIZE

• Pluto's radius is 346 miles.
• It takes Pluto 247 earth years to orbit the Sun.
• It takes Pluto 248 earth years to rotate on its axis.
• It was discovered on February 18, 1930 by American, Clyde Tombaugh.

FACTS ABOUT PLUTO

• It has 5 known moons.
• Pluto is smaller than a number of moons from other planets.
• Pluto is one third water.
• Pluto is the largest dwarf planet.
• I weigh 85 pounds on Earth but would only weigh 7.083 pounds on Pluto.
• The average temperature on Pluto is 375 to 400 degrees below zero.

I chose Pluto because I thought it would be interesting to learn about. It is a very popular dwarf planet.