Pluto, the most puzzling world in the solar system, is the second largest dwarf planet made of ice and rock. It is 5.9 billion km from the Sun; it has the width of North America. It is a very cold place with minimum temperature of -370 degree Fahrenheit on the surface. One year on Pluto is equal to 248 Earth’s years; it takes a very long time to orbit the Sun. In addition, a day in Pluto lasts 6 Earth’s day. Pluto is a world that stands with light and shade, what causes this contrast may be that Pluto has patches of ice and rocks. It has some black, very dark areas, and some extremely bright areas. Experts believe that snow in Pluto would be made of nitrogen, not water, and it would have a creamy brown color. Moreover, Pluto is made up of three
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As a result, Pluto revolves around Charon and Charon revolves around Pluto. Charon and Pluto are almost like a double planet. There is one side of Pluto where you will never see Charon and one side where you will always see it. This is one of the most remarkable and unique things in the Solar System. It is a tourist site that people will not see elsewhere in the solar system. Experts never believed that beyond Neptune it was just Pluto. So, in 1992, they found a vast army of frozen bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune, now known as the Kuiper belt. The Kuiper belt contains ice bodies at temperatures maybe 200 degrees colder than a room full of ice. Pluto is not alone; out there keeping Pluton accompanied is an immense ring of ice and rocks that define the backyard boundary of our solar system. Some of these objects in the Kuiper Belt are the size of a mountain, some are large like cities and some much larger like the size of Pluto. These objects were formed in the very early stages of the solar system; they are what were left over the formation of the planets. Some experts believe that there could be other objects larger than Pluto out there. In 2003, Mike Brown and his team found images that showed the possibility of another planet; an object that was moving, but it was too slow for the computer to keep track of it. This object was
As a result, Pluto revolves around Charon and Charon revolves around Pluto. Charon and Pluto are almost like a double planet. There is one side of Pluto where you will never see Charon and one side where you will always see it. This is one of the most remarkable and unique things in the Solar System. It is a tourist site that people will not see elsewhere in the solar system. Experts never believed that beyond Neptune it was just Pluto. So, in 1992, they found a vast army of frozen bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune, now known as the Kuiper belt. The Kuiper belt contains ice bodies at temperatures maybe 200 degrees colder than a room full of ice. Pluto is not alone; out there keeping Pluton accompanied is an immense ring of ice and rocks that define the backyard boundary of our solar system. Some of these objects in the Kuiper Belt are the size of a mountain, some are large like cities and some much larger like the size of Pluto. These objects were formed in the very early stages of the solar system; they are what were left over the formation of the planets. Some experts believe that there could be other objects larger than Pluto out there. In 2003, Mike Brown and his team found images that showed the possibility of another planet; an object that was moving, but it was too slow for the computer to keep track of it. This object was