[DOC] [TLE] Faraway - Space Today Online [PAR] It is the only one to cross another planet's orbit. The small planet travels an 
unusual path around the Sun, which sometimes brings it closer to the Sun than 
the planet Neptune. Scientists say it has an eccentric orbit because ... From 1979 
to 1999, Pluto was the eighth planet from the Sun. In 1999, it crossed Neptune's 
path to... [DOC] [TLE] Space Today Online -- Exploring the Solar System Planet Pluto [PAR] The unusual path around the Sun sometimes brings Pluto closer to the Sun than 
the planet Neptune. ... It is the only major planet to cross another planet's orbit. 
Recent crossing. From 1979 to 1999, Pluto was the eighth planet from the Sun. ... 
It will remain in that ninth planet position for more than 200 years before crossing
... [DOC] [TLE] Space Today Online -- Exploring the Solar System Planet Pluto [PAR] That left only eight major planets in the Solar System and a great deal of ... IAU 
defines plutoid as a type of dwarf planet that orbits the Sun at a distance greater 
than ... Hubble Space Telescope image of the Solar System's ninth planet Pluto 
and ... an unusual orbit around the Sun, which sometimes brings it closer to the 
Sun... [DOC] [TLE] Pluto's Unusual Orbit | Exploring the Planets | National Air and ... [PAR] Its orbital path doesn't lie in the same plane as the eight planets, but is inclined at 
an angle of 17. ... That means that sometimes Pluto is a lot nearer to the Sun 
than at other times, At times Pluto's orbit brings it closer to the Sun than Neptune. [DOC] [TLE] Orbit of Pluto - Universe Today [PAR] But dwarf planet's Pluto's orbit is very different. It's highly ... This strange orbit 
gives Pluto some unusual characteristics, sometimes bringing it within the orbit of 
Neptune. ... Pluto remained closer to the Sun than Neptune until February 11, 
1999. [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 25 - St Paul [PAR] with the planet that is closest to the Sun, Mercury. ... The four innermost planets 
compared, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. ... was finally launched on the 9th of 
November, 2005. ... The moon is less dense than earth (there is more matter in a 
given volume of earth ...... Pluto's orbit will sometimes bring it closer to the Sun. [DOC] [TLE] Pluto Is Sometimes Closer To The Earth Than Nepture - Mental Floss [PAR] Facts about Pluto, including why it's no longer classified as a planet, and why ... 
also meaning that it doesn't orbit in the same plane as the other planets. ... the 
Sun than Neptune, technically making it the eighth planet, not the ninth. ... New 
Horizons has finally allowed us to see some surface features of Pluto, and it's 
weird. [DOC] [TLE] What Is Pluto? | NASA [PAR] A dwarf planet is round and orbits the sun just like the eight major planets of the 
solar system. ... That is almost 40 times farther from the sun than Earth is. ... 
Getting this close means that Pluto sometimes crosses Neptune's path. .... 
Sometimes NASA conducts a sample-return mission to bring rocks or soil from 
another body... [DOC] [TLE] Pluto Facts: Interesting Facts about the Dwarf Planet ... - The Planets [PAR] Pluto is the second closest dwarf planet to the Sun and from 1930 when it was 
discovered up until 2006, it was also considered the ninth planet of the solar ... 
are sometimes considered a double object, a double dwarf planet or a binary 
system. ... periodically Pluto is actually close to the Sun than the eight planet, 
Neptune. [DOC] [TLE] The Solar System: Pluto | The Institute for Creation Research [PAR] Since planets orbit the sun, while stars do not, Planet X would be in a ... With 
these discoveries, astronomers began to realize Pluto was not an unusual out-of-
place planet but the ... In fact, near perihelion Pluto is closer to the sun than 
Neptune. ... considered to be the eighth planet from the sun, and Neptune was 
the

Question: This ninth planet's unusual orbit sometimes brings it closer to the sun than the eighth planet
Answer: Pluto