1. By Keira and Eilidh F

2. Contents  The dwarf planet  What does Pluto look like?  Where is Pluto in the Solar System?  Pluto’s moon  What is Planet X?

3. The Dwarf Planet Pluto held it’s position as the outermost planet in the Solar System for 76 years until it was reclassified as a mere ‘dwarf planet’ in August 24 th 2006. Pluto is the smallest of the other planets at only 2.390km, a mass of.02% of Earth and a volume of 1% of Earth. Facts about Pluto:  I rotation= 6 Earth days and 9 hours  Average temperature= -234˚ C

4. What is Pluto like?  Pluto is mostly brown.  It’s atmosphere is thin and mainly composed of methane gas.  Scientists doubt that Pluto has any form of life.

5. Where is Pluto in the Solar System?  Most of the time, Pluto is the distant planet from the Sun, with a distance of 5.869 million kilometres.  It has an oval shaped orbit.  It’s orbit takes it closer to the Sun than Neptune for 20 years of it’s 248 year orbit.

6. Pluto’s moon  Pluto has one moon called Charon.  Charon is only slightly smaller than it’s parent, Pluto.  Some astronomers examining a photo of Pluto noticed that it had stretched out, but it was only it’s moon Charon.  Charon was discovered in 1978.

7. What is Planet X?  Scientists have considered the fact that there is a tenth planet in our Solar System nicknamed ‘Planet X’.  Planet X must be larger than Pluto, however it has never been found.  It may be too far away to find, perhaps twice as far away from the Sun as Pluto. Who thinks it exists

8. Random Facts  Pluto has never been visited by spacecraft.  Some small objects have been found beyond Pluto.  The objects may form part of a ring of ice bodies called the Kuiper Belt by astronomers.  The Kuiper Belt theory makes the existence of Planet X less likely.  These small objects may account for the gravitational pulls on Uranus and Neptune.  Because Pluto is so small you would be very light. If you weigh 70 pounds on Earth, for example, you would weigh 4 pounds on Pluto.

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