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Temperature
Pluto is -230 ℃ it's so cold that Pluto is ice. The ice is frozen nitrogen, carbon monoxide and methane
Credits
https://www.nasa.gov
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/kbos/indepth
http://www.pinsdaddy.com
*Reconnaissance is another word for observation.
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The kuiper belt
The Kuiper Belt
Pluto is in the Kuiper Belt, the Kuiper Belt are many tiny ice pieces that are fragments from other planets.
Pluto hasn’t “Cleared the neighborhood” -Natgeo wild, Which means there are still other bodies a similar size, so that means Pluto isn’t the dominant planet.
Why is Pluto considered a dwarf planet?
Why was it declared a planet in the first place?
Pluto was a planet, until scientists discovered that there were other dwarf planets around the same size as Pluto, when they found out there were other planets like Pluto, they decided to declare Pluto a dwarf planet.
Why Pluto is named Pluto
Facts you need to know about Pluto
Venetia Burney an English 11 year old who named Pluto after the roman god of the underworld Hades . Pluto the dog was introduced in 1930 the time Pluto was declared a planet. However Pluto the dog was named in 1931, pretty old, right?
1. Pluto is a dwarf planet
2. Pluto is at least 40 times farther than the sun than the earth
3. It takes 248 earth years for Pluto to orbit around the sun
4. Pluto is in the Kuiper belt/part of it
5. Pluto has 5 moons
We will explain this further in the presentation
The five moons of Pluto
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The five moons of Pluto are named Charon, Hydra, Styx, Nix and Kerberos
The five moons of Pluto
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