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Pluto
By: JaQuazna martin
Introduction
• Today I am going to tell you him things
about Pluto the planet.
• Pluto is the ninth planet or as some
people say the last planet in the solar
system.
• Pluto is the Roman god of darkness and
the underworld.
Who found Pluto?
• Clyde Tombaugh found Pluto in 1930
• On March 13, 1930, Clyde Tombaugh at the
Lowell observatory in Arizona about Pluto.
Venetia Phair
• Venetia was 11 years old when she
suggested to her grandfather that the
newly planet should be named Pluto.
• She was award with a five-pound note.
atmosphere
Its expanding more
Pluto, which is about a fifth the size of
Earth, is composed primarily of rock and
ice. As it is about 40 times further from
the Sun than the Earth on average.
Pluto, the solar system's oddball, has an
upside-down atmosphere compared with
Earth. Temperatures rise, rather than
drop, with altitude on the dwarf planet, a
new study finds
What Pluto looks like inside
motion
• cache.gettyimages.com
• 248 earl year=1 Pluto year
why
• Pluto has been demoted because it does
not dominate its neighborhood .
• Charon, its large “moon,” is only about half
the size of Pluto, while all the true planets
are far larger than their moons.
• Pluto is a dwarf planet.
Pluto’s moon
• Pluto has 3 moons. One of the moons is
very large. The large moon is named
Charon.
• The other to are fairly small.
Data
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Diameter:234
Distance from sun (km):5.9billion
mass:1x10^22
Surface gravity:0.06
Average temperature: -230
Length of sidereal day:6.39Earth day
Length of year: 248 years
mission
• The first mission to distant planet Pluto
is under way after the successful launch
today of NASA's New Horizons
spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air
Force Station, Fla.
Work cited
• http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id
=4857
• http://www.wissennews.de/sonnensystem/pluto.php
• http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/plan
etary-storm-over-status-of-pluto-1222862.html
• http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/pluto_worldbook
.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto
• http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/pluto_worldbook
.html