Is there a tenth planet in our solar system?
No. On August 23, 2006, the International Astronomical Union decided that the solar system contains only eight planets. Pluto, which […]
Pluto
The prototype “dwarf planet,” Pluto orbits the Sun at an average distance of 39.5 times the distance between Earth and Sun. Pluto has a mass 0.002 times the mass of Earth and a radius 0.18 times the radius of Earth. It is a small body made of water ice, and temperatures there do not rise above minus-223 degrees Centigrade. Pluto has five known moons. Discovered in 1930, it originally was classified as a planet, but was demoted in 2006.
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