Pluto Facts | Interesting Facts About Pluto | Amazing Facts About Dwarf Planet Pluto
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Prior to 2006, Pluto was known as the smallest planet in the solar system and the ninth planet from the sun. But Today, Pluto is called a “dwarf planet.”
A dwarf planet orbits the sun just like other planets, but it is smaller. A dwarf planet is so small it cannot clear other objects out of its path.
Pluto, which is now called 134340 Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond Neptune. It was the first Kuiper belt object to be discovered. Pluto is the largest and second-most-massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object directly orbiting the Sun.
Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930.
Here are some Interesting Facts About Pluto:
Though it is very small in shape Pluto has 5 moons, Charon (the largest, with a diameter just over half that of Pluto), Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra.
New Horizons spacecraft is the one and only spacecraft to fly by Pluto.
The name Pluto was proposed by Venetia Burney (1918–2009), a then eleven-year-old schoolgirl in Oxford, England.
It was named after the god of the underworld.
