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Title: Pluto


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Pluto
Makers Josh Hyland, Josh Zimmerman and Celia
Ruefle
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FACTS
  • Plutos diameter is 1,925 miles.
  • Pluto is 3,666,000,000 from the sun.
  • A day on Pluto is 6 days and 9 hours.
  • A year on Pluto is 248 Earth years.

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Surroundings
  • Plutos temperature is 356F below zero.
  • Its atmosphere is all nitrogen gas, carbon
  • monoxide, and methane .
  • Pluto has three moons.
  • Pluto has one big moon named Charon .
  • Charon is half the size of Pluto.

Pluto and Charon.
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Plutos History
Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930.New
Horizons left in 2006 and will arrive at Pluto in
2019. Pluto is named after the god of the
underworld.
Pluto
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Extremely Interesting Facts
  • Plutos surface is made up mostly of ice.
  • Pluto is one of five dwarf planets.
  • Pluto is actually smaller than Neptunes Largest
    moon, Triton.

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Sources
  • Windows to the Universe
  • Star Child
  • A Virtual Journey into the Universe
  • Planetary Photo Journal
  • Solar System Exploration
  • Classroom materials
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