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Pluto
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larger picture)
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| Pluto
is the ninth planet from the Sun.
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weighs 13,800,000,000,000,000,000 tons and has
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a
diameter of 1,485 miles.
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One
day on Pluto is 153.3 hours lon
g.
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average distance of Pluto from the Sun is 3,647 million
miles.
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at times Pluto is only 2,755,800,000 miles from the Sun |
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at other times it is actually 4,538,700,000 miles from
the Sun.
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reason is that the orbit is not a perfect circle, but an
ellipse.
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| Pluto
takes 90,588 days to orbit the Sun. That’s 248 years.
The
mean temperature on Pluto is -375 degrees
fahrenheit.
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