Welcome to the science lab!This page is a page of facts about the planet
pluto,if these facts get too boring for you look
down at the piccy of dancing pluto and you'll feel better^_^
Pluto's Moon is named Charon and was discovered in 1978.
Not much is known about it's surface or atmosphere or
about the planet itself(kinda like the senshi).The planet was named by
an 11
year old British girl after Pluto,the Roman god of the
dead,brother
to Jupiter and Neptune,who presided over a realm of eternal
darkness.The planet is so distant that it is four thousand times
too dim to be seen with the naked eye.Most of what we
know
of Pluto is assumed and not factual.Pluto takes
248.5 years
to revolve around the sun.Pluto is about 5.9 billion
kilometers.
Pluto is sort of the odd man out among the solar system
and
some people think it is actually larger than what you
see when
looking into a telescope.The sheet of ice that may cover
it may
reflect like in such a way that makes the planet seem
smaller
but that is only a hypothesis.But now we know that Pluto
is
smaller than our moon.Charon,pluto's moon,was named after
the ferryman who brings the souls of the dead across
the River
Styx to the god Pluto's domain.
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