The radius of Pluto is of 1,188 kilometres and the diameter is 2,376 kilometres. This is around two-third of the moon's diameter. Why is Pluto's orbit different? Pluto is a dwarf planet with a highly inclined and eccentric orbit. Pluto does not orbit in the same plane as the other planets. Pluto orbits around the sun at the angle of 17-degrees.
Pluto has many different characteristics including a diversity of surfaces and colors on the dwarf planet. Pluto has many mountains, craters, valleys, plains, and glaciers. Some of the regions of Pluto are dark and deep while others are bright as snow.
Pluto Atmosphere Surface Pressure: ~13 microbar Surface temperature: 24 - 38 K (-247 - -233 C) Scale height: ~50 km Mean molecular weight: ~28 Atmospheric composition: 99% Nitrogen (N 2), 0.5% Methane (CH 4), 0.05% Carbon Monoxide (CO), trace HCN, C 2 H x hydrocarbons Charon (P1)
Pluto was unable to clear its orbit because it lacked the mass to form enough gravity to become the most powerful force acting on other celestial bodies. Pluto has many different characteristics including a diversity of surfaces and colors on the dwarf planet. Pluto has many mountains, craters, valleys, plains, and glaciers.
Bulk parametersPlutoRatio (Pluto/Earth)Volume (1010 km3)0.7020.0065Equatorial radius (km)11880.186Polar radius (km)11880.187Volumetric mean radius (km)11880.18614 more rows•Dec 23, 2021
Pluto is only 2,370 kilometers (1,473 miles) wide. That is about half the width of the United States and smaller than Earth's moon. Pluto takes 248 Earth years to make one revolution around the sun. That means one year on Pluto is about 248 Earth years.
Size and Distance With a radius of 715 miles (1,151 kilometers), Pluto is about 1/6 the width of Earth. If Earth was the size of a nickel, Pluto would be about as big as a popcorn kernel. From an average distance of 3.7 billion miles (5.9 billion kilometers), Pluto is 39 astronomical units away from the Sun.
Is Pluto or the Sun Closer to Earth?ObjectDistance From the SunFarthest Distance – AphelionNeptune30 AU or 4.5 billion km / 2.8 billion mi30.33 AU or 4.54 billion km / 2.8 billion miPluto39.5 AU or 5.9 billion km / 3.7 billion mi49.30 AU or 7.3 billion km / 4.5 billion mi7 more rows
With an estimated surface area of 6,427,806 square miles, Pluto could hold almost 24 states the size of Texas.
Pluto's brief life as a planet was over, dead at age 76. Along with Eris and Ceres, an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, Pluto was reclassified as a “dwarf planet.” (In 2008, the IAU also added Makemake and Haumea to its list of recognized dwarf planets.)
1,476.8 miPluto / Diameter
Russia has a bigger surface area than Pluto. Pluto's surface area is 16.7 million square kilometers. Russia's surface area is 17,098,242 sq km.
Pluto: 16,647,940 sq km (6,427,806 sq mi) Russia: 17,098,242 sq km (6,592,800 sq mi) Earth's Moon: 38 million sq km (14.6 million sq mi) Asia: 44,579,000 sq km (17,212,000 sq mi)
If you assume that Pluto is still categorized as a planet, Pluto is normally the farthest planet from the Sun. Note that Pluto's orbit is highly elliptical, though, so there are periods when Pluto's orbital distance is less than Neptune's.
6.4 Earth daysOn approach in July 2015, the cameras on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured Pluto rotating over the course of a full “Pluto day.” The best available images of each side of Pluto taken during approach have been combined to create this view of a full rotation. Pluto's day is 6.4 Earth days long.
Pluto is the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, discovered in 1930. It was thought to be the 9th planet of our system for 75 years until the discovery of Eris and other similar objects that led to its demotion from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006.