Transcript Pluto
DWARF PLANET Pluto orbits beyond the orbit of Neptune (usually). It is much smaller than any of the official planets and now classified as a "dwarf planet". Pluto is smaller than seven of the solar system's moons (the Moon, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Titan and Triton). Juan Miguel Barragan • There are 5 officially recognized dwarf planets in our solar system, they are Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake and Eris.. Dwarf planet symbols the symbols for the planets, Moon, and Sun (along with the symbols for the zodiac constellations) were developed for use in both astronomy and astrology. The symbol for Pluto is a monogram made up of the P and L in Pluto and also the initials of the astronomer, Percival Lowell, who predicted its discovery. Dwarf planet symbols Solar System Pluto’s distance from the Sun is 5.9 billion km – the exact number is 5,906,376,272 km. Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,Uranus, Neptune. Dwarf planets: Pluto, Eris,Makemake,Haumea,ceres. Pluto’s orbit period is 6.387 days. Moons Pluto has 5 moons. Pluto's five moons are called;Stix,Charon,Kerberos,Hydrax. Planet appearance Pluto's surface looks grayish and dark. Pluto is primarily made of ice and rock Pluto's appearance is very icy and rocky. The color of Pluto is a brownish yellow color. The surface is covered with ice and has traces of methane and carbon monoxide ice on it. Rings The idea suggests that other Kuiper Belt Objects might also harbor multiple satellites and raises the possibility that Pluto is encircled by rings fashioned from debris ejected from the surface of the tiny moons. Exploration The new horizon was launched on, Jan,19,2006 When NASA's New Horizons sped past Pluto on July 14, 2015, it took the best-ever pictures of the rocky world’s surface, giving us new insight into its geology, composition and atmosphere. Interesting Facts Pluto Facts. Pluto is the second closest dwarf planet to the Sun and from 1930 when it was discovered up until 2006, it was also considered the ninth planet of the solar system. It is also the second largest dwarf planet, with Eris being the most massive known dwarf planet. Pluto is named after the Greek god of the underworld: This is a later name for the more well known Hades and was proposed by Venetia Burney an eleven year old schoolgirl from Oxford, England. Pluto Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our solar system's ninth planet. But after the discovery of similar intriguing worlds deeper in the distant Kuiper Belt, icy Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet. Makemake While similar to planets in many ways, dwarf planets share their orbits around the sun with other objects such as asteroids or comets. Eris Eris (minor-planet designation 136199 Eris) is the most massive and second-largest dwarf planet [g]known in the Solar System. It is also the ninth-most-massive known body directly orbiting the Sun, [g] and the largest known body in the Solar System not visited by a spacecraft. Haumea Haumea, minor-planet designation 136108 Haumea, is a dwarf planet located beyond Neptune's orbit. Haumea is the third closest dwarf planet to the sun and is located beyond the orbit of neptune. It has about 1/3 the mass of pluto and was discovered by 2004 by a team from Caltech. Ceres Ceres is a dwarf planet, the only one located in the inner reaches of the solar system; the rest lie at the outer edges, in the Kuiper Belt. While it is the smallest of the known dwarf planets, it is the largest object in the asteroid belt. THANKS FOR WATCHING