Amazing and Interesting Facts about Pluto
By: Nitish Kumar
Tags: Universe, Pluto, Solar System, Facts About Pluto, Pluto Facts

Pluto is a dwarf planet, which is very small in size, it was previously considered a planet, but since 24 August 2006, Pluto has been removed from the range of planets, however, this does not affect Pluto. But what was the reason behind this, we are going to tell you in this article and along with this, we are also going to tell you 10 interesting information about this dwarf planet.

Interesting facts about pluto

Why does Pluto not understand as the planet?

When Pluto was researched in 1930, Pluto was declared a planet, but even then many astronomers differed as to whether the planet was counted or not, and the reason behind it was the small size of Pluto. Pluto is only 2370 kilometers in diameter and this is why scientists were hesitant to believe how the planet could be so small. For this reason, this discussion lasted for many years and in 2006, about 2500 astrophysicists voted whether Pluto should be considered a planet or not? In this meeting, Pluto was removed from the category of planets with an overwhelming majority.

What was the reason that Pluto’s planet status was taken?

In the meeting of scientists, three rules or standards were fixed to get the status of planets, and whatever planet stands in it will be considered as the planet, it was decided in this meeting. The three standards are like this,

1. It revolves around the Sun.

2. It must be so large that it is spherical due to its gravity.

3. It should have such strength that it can create its independent class apart from the rest of the bodies.

In the above rule, Pluto does not stand up to the expectation of the third law because it collides with the space planet Neptune while orbiting the Sun. For this reason, it is believed that Pluto is not stressed enough to fall into the category of a planet, due to this, on 24 August 2006, Pluto was removed from the category of planets and now Pluto is known as “Asteroids” number “134340”.

Interesting Facts about Pluto

1. Pluto is a very small asteroid whose diameter is about 2372 kilometers but still, Pluto has about 5 satellites.

2. Pluto was the number 9 planet in our solar system earlier, but it is no longer a planet. The distance of Pluto is about 587 million 40 lakh kilometers from the Sun.

3. Pluto is also known as Yam Planet. It is the second-largest dwarf planet in our solar system. Pluto is so small that if the Earth’s satellite’s Moon is compared with it, then it is only 65% ​​of the mass of our Moon.

4. Pluto has no fixed atmospheric because when it is away from the sun, nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide on its surface freeze to form ice, and when it comes close to the sun, it turns into air gas.

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5. Pluto has an average temperature of -225 to -240o Celsius.

6. So far, only one spacecraft has been able to reach near Pluto’s surface and its name is “New Horizons”. The vehicle was launched on 19 January 2006 and passed by Pluto on 14 July 2015. With the help of this spacecraft, much information was learned about Pluto.

7. Pluto takes 246 years of Earth to orbit the Sun.

8. Pluto was discovered by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh on 18th February 1930.

9. Pluto was named by Venetia Burney, a student studying in class 11. This girl said that the god of darkness in Rome is called Pluto because there is darkness on this planet that is why this planet was named Pluto,

10. One-third of Pluto is filled with water which is in the form of ice and this water is 3 times more than the source of all types of water on our earth.