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 Pluto Summary
--Discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, February 18, 1930
--Sidereal Orbit Period (length of year): 248 Earth years or
90,553 Earth days
--Siderial Rotation Period (length of day):
6.387 Earth days (retrograde) or 153.29280 hours
(retrograde)
--Orbit Cercumference:
22,698,676,007 miles or 36,529,978,039 km
--Orbit Inclination: 17.14 degrees
--Equatorial Inclination to Orbit:122.5 degrees (retrograde
rotation)
--Mean Radius: 715.2 miles or 1,151 km
--Equatorial Circumference: 4,493.7 miles or 7,231.7 km
--Mass: 13,032,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg or 0.006 x Earth
--Min/Max Surface Temp: -387/-369 °F or -233/-223 °C
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Documents and PowerPoints
New Horizons Journey to Pluto.pdf
Planet Definition.ppt
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WEB RESOURCES
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New Horizons Science Photos from
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Hubble Maps of Pluto
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Wikipedia Links
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Other Related Links
Clyde Tombaugh-Discoverer of the planet
Pluto
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Outer Planets
Pluto's Neighborhood
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MULTIMEDIA IMAGES
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 Original glass plates on which Pluto was
discovered.
Computer-generated rotating image of Pluto based on
observations by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2002-2003.
 Near-true-colour composite image of Pluto
taken by the New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015 from a distance
of 450,000 kilometers.
 Pluto's Colorful Composition taken July 13,
2015, when the spacecraft was 280,000 miles (450,000 kilometers)
away from Pluto, show features as small as 1.4 miles (2.2
kilometers).
 Pluto's Atmosphere
taken on July 15, 2015 when the spacecraft was about 1.25 million
miles (2 million kilometers) from Pluto.
 Pluto's largest moon Charon taken
late on July 13, 2015 from a distance of 289,000 miles (466,000
kilometers)
 Two of Pluto's Smaller Moons, Nix and
Hydra
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MULTIMEDIA MOVIES
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 New Horizons Mission Animation
 Flying over Pluto's icy plains and Hillary
Mountains
 Flying over Pluto's Icy Mountain and
Plains
 
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