There are some interesting facts about Pluto:
1. It takes 5 and a half hours for sunlight to reach Pluto.
2. On 24 August 2006, Pluto was removed from the class of planets by the International Astronomy Organization (IAU) and given the status of "dwarf planet".
3. If your weight on Earth is 60 kg, then your weight on Pluto will be 4 kg.
4. Pluto's distance from the Sun is 39.5 Astronomical Units(AU) means 5909.121 millions.
5. One year of the planet Pluto is equal to 248 years of the Earth.
6. On Pluto, the sun rises in the west and sinks in the east, as it rotates in the opposite direction from the Earth.
7. The planet Pluto is so small that it can have no effect on the orbit of another planet.
8. One third of Pluto is water. This water is stored in ice form. This is 3 times more than the oceans found on Earth. The remaining two-thirds of Pluto are rocks. It has many mountain ranges and deep pits.
9. So far five planets of the planet Pluto - Charon, Styx, Nix, Hyrda and Kerberos have been discovered.
10. The planet Pluto was discovered by a mistake by scientists when they were calculating based on the speeds of Uranus and Neptune. Scientist Clyde Tombaugh carefully studied the sky and discovered the planet Pluto on 18 February 1930.
11. Pluto has a diameter of 2,376.6 km.
12. The temperature on Pluto can be cold as -226 to -240 degrees Celsius.
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