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The warmest places on Pluto are about -360° F. Pluto's core will be much warmer, maybe as hot as 2000° F, kept warm ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - PLUTO

Today, in 2005, Pluto is 2.88 billion miles from the Sun and 2.82 billion miles from Earth. But the distances vary: by the year 2114 Pluto will be 4.58 billion ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - PLUTO

Pluto's mass is about 13,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons, which sounds like a lot, but that's ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - PLUTO

Pluto is about 70 percent as big as the Earth's Moon, or 18 percent as big as the Earth. It's the smallest planet but is twice the size of the largest ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - PLUTO

Jupiter is both very hot and very cold depending on how deep into the planet's atmosphere you go. The core may be as hot as ...

Our solar system is much bigger than you probably think. Pluto, the farthest planet, is about 3.5 billion miles away. If the Sun were the size of a bowling ball, Pluto would be smaller than a pin head and ten football fields away. But the solar system is bigger than that, still. ---- Answer provided by ...

... called asteroids or comets or other things. Some people think Pluto is large enough to be called a planet; some people don't. Pluto is a ball of rock and ice, but that doesn't mean it's not a planet. The Earth is just a ball of rock if ... think of it that way. But in any case, what we call Pluto makes no difference to what it is. It's a very interesting place. ---- Answer provided by Dr. John Spencer ...

... bigger than Pluto, but quite similar to it, was announced in the summer of 2005. It is three times further from the Sun than Pluto is. There may be a few other Pluto-like planets ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - PLUTO

Pluto's surface is a patchwork of creamy-white, ice-covered areas and dark brown dirt-covered areas. The ... . These substances are probably produced from the action of ultraviolet light on the methane in Pluto's atmosphere. ---- Answer provided by Dr. John Spencer, Ph.D. Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question ...

The edge of the solar system is actually hard to define. The solar wind extends outward about three times the orbit of Pluto. At this point the solar wind from our Sun mixes with the solar wind of the interstellar medium. This is called the termination shock. However, most astronomers agree that there is ... great swarm of comets around our solar system. The far edge of this is about one light year, or six trillion miles away. ---- Answer provided by Jim Zebrowski Image: ...

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