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... Pluto, and we hope to fly past one of the thousands of small bodies, called the Kuiper Belt, which orbit beyond Pluto. For the best picture of Pluto yet available visit: http://www.pluto.jhuapl.edu/science/everything_pluto/14_makeMaps. html (See CDROM)
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... summer of 2005. It is three times further from the Sun than Pluto is. There may be a few other Pluto-like planets out there, waiting to be discovered.
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... Pluto sometimes gets closer to the Sun than Neptune, when it's close to the Sun it is high above Neptune's orbit, so it doesn't come very close. Also, Pluto and Neptune orbit in-synch: Pluto orbits the sun exactly twice for every three orbits of Neptune. This means that when Pluto comes close to Neptune's orbit, Neptune is always somewhere else in its orbit.
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... 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 ... you want to 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.
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The surface is pretty strange. We know from analyzing the infrared light reflected from Pluto that its surface is a mixture of a lot of different sorts of ice (ordinary ... any close-up pictures yet. The New Horizons spacecraft that we hope to launch to Pluto in 2006 will take close-up pictures in 2015. Pictures will tell us a lot about Pluto, but the spacecraft won't be able to stop and bring a piece of the ...
... —pretty big for a moon. But recently we've discovered two other moons, orbiting Pluto a little bit further away than Charon. They are much smaller than Charon, maybe 30 ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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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
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Maybe someday astronauts will visit Pluto, but at the moment we haven't even figured out how to send astronauts to ... . The furthest that astronauts have been, our own Moon, is 12,000 times closer than Pluto
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... , England, shortly after the planet's discovery in 1930. The name has a double significance. Pluto is the Greek god of the underworld, an appropriate name for a world at the ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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... and 2.82 billion miles from Earth. But the distances vary: by the year 2114 Pluto will be 4.58 billion miles from the Sun.
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