Report of Pluto

1. Report of Pluto By: Emily Nelson

2. Introduction I chose Pluto for my report. Pluto is a very, very interesting. I researched location, interesting facts, and physical data

3. Pluto was thought to be the god to whom all men must eventually go to Roman to be the god of the god of the underworld, in Greek mythology. There is a symbol for Pluto. Pluto is a small icy” dwarf planet”. Scientists are still unsure as to exactly what it’s made of!

4. Pluto is the smallest dwarf planet. Pluto is made out of rocks and ice. Pluto is 3,647 millions miles from the sun! If you weighed about 70 pounds on earth you would weigh 4 pounds on Pluto. Pluto doesn’t lie in the same eight planets of the solar system.

5. Pluto is a very dusty planet. Pluto was discovered in 11930 by 24 year old. Clyde was using a special machine to compare photos to be to be a tiny world, even smaller than our moon. Pluto is a giant ball of dust but up until recently, it was also a planet. All that changed 2006 when scientists agreed on a, definition, so scientists had to create a new category.

6. Pluto follows an elliptical ( egg shaped) orbit that varies between 7,381 million km (49-sun-earth distances) and 4,446 million km(30 sun-earth distances) since one orbit lasts 248 years, no one born on Pluto would every experience a single birthday! Pluto is 3,647 million miles from the sun. Pluto is 2,190 km smaller than our moon.

7. Conclusion There is a lot of facts about Pluto. Pluto is a very, very interesting planet. I researched location, physical data, and interesting facts.

8. bibliography • First Space Encyclopedia • Planets and Moon • With Peter and Paul Around the World