Pluto: Dwarf Planet

Pluto was discovered in 1930 by an astronomer from the United States. Pluto used to be known as the ninth planet from the sun, but today it is known as a dwarf planet. A dwarf planet still orbits the sun but is smaller than other planets. The reason we don’t classify it as a regular planet is because it cannot clear objects that are in its orbital path. This means that if there are rocks or debris it will just run into it instead of destroying it. Pluto is about 3.6 billion miles away from the sun, this is 40 times the distance of earth to the sun. Pluto is only about 1400 miles around which is half the size of the United States. The moon is slightly bigger than pluto. It takes Pluto it takes about 248 years to orbit the sun which means that

He called this “New Planet” Eris. The finding of this new object got many astronomers thinking about if Pluto should be a planet. Soon after they declared that Pluto was no longer a planet because of it’s size and distance from the sun. These planets are now called Dwarf planets, but they are also called Plutoids which is a name given to a Dwarf Planet when it is beyond Neptune’s orbit. Pluto is very cold, this is based on the fact that it is the farthest “Planet” away from the sun making it very cold and very dark. It is 375-400 degrees fahrenheit below zero. Being that it is so far away from the earth and sun it is hard to really study Pluto’s physical characteristics but many have agreed that Pluto is covered with Ice because of the low temperature. Some of the observations that scientists have recorded are that it has a tilted orbit and it orbits in an oval instead of a circle. The main idea of Pluto is that it is a Dwarf planet that can’t clear its orbit. Pluto also is very cold and more than likely covered in ice, it also is very far from the earth and has 5 moons. Personally I do not think that Pluto should be a planet because it is too small and it can’t clear its orbital