Facts About Pluto

Facts About

Pluto

By Regan

Pluto: Pluto’s name came from Greek and roman mythology. Pluto the roman god of the underworld though you be surprised that he isn’t the god of death. He is also god of all things under the earth.

Pluto’s Position: Pluto is not a planet but if it where it would be the 9th planet from the sun.

Piture from space.com

Pluto’s Rotation on its Axis:  It takes about 153.3 or 6 days and 9 hours for a day on Pluto.

Pluto’s Size: Pluto is not a planet but if it where it would be the smallest in our solar system but the biggest of the dwarf planet.

Pluto’s Gravity: Pluto’s gravity is 1/12 of earth’s so if you weigh 200 pounds on earth you’ll weigh 16 pounds on pluto

Pluto’s Orbit: It takes 248.9 earth years for Pluto to orbit around the sun or one of it’s years.

Pluto’s Atmosphere: Pluto has a very thin atmosphere and is,not made of oxygen.

Composition of Pluto and its Appearance:Pluto doesn’t appear to be a gas dwarf planet but is probably rock and definitely ice

Plutos' Moons: There are five moons orbiting pluto charon which n the greek myths charged dead spirts cross river syxs (wich if you swam across you would die) for a silver coin. Nix which was the goddess of night (Greek mythology). Syxs which is a river dividing the underworld and the earth. Kerberos which I don’t know what it’s named after and hydra which is named after a greek monster which has seven heads and if you cut one of it it will replace it with two.

How Would a Human Being Fare on Pluto: You  would ever freeze to death fall into a canyon or die of lack of oxygen

Something Special:Once called a planet, a bigger name has been released for Pluto, the small planet. The dwarf planet. But that is not all N.A.S.A has discovered a mysterious heart shaped canyon on pluto. But what does this mean? What will futher images discover? But is pluto yet to tell more secrets?

Discovery of Your Pluto: N.A.S.A discovered a heart shaped thing on pluto and a mountain has been named after sir edmund hillary

My personal opinion: In my opinion is that Pluto should still be a planet even if it's small and it’s very exciting in new developments. :) Thank you for reading :)