PLUTO

                                                                           God of the underworld

Last updated: 27/05/2019

Pluto is the second dwarf planet from the Sun and is the most famous out of all of them. It was discovered on February 18th, 1930, by Clyde W. Tombaugh. It was classified as the planet in the Solar System but was later declared a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union or IAU. Pluto's name was suggested by Venetia Burney who was an 11-year-old school girl from Oxford, England. It also honored American astronomer, Percival Lowell, who first caught hints of Pluto in 1905, but later passed away. The P and L in Pluto are the initials of Percival Lowell. The New Horizons space probe had some of Clyde Tombaugh's ashes on it when it flew by Pluto and took the first high-resolution photographs. Pluto is the Roman god of the underworld. Better known as Hades, in Greek mythology. 

Talking about dwarf planets, Pluto is the largest, but second most massive dwarf planet in the Solar System after Eris. 

Pluto doesn't have a ring system but has 5 Moons, Charon, Nix, Styx, Kerberos, and Hydra.

Pluto is far from the Sun. It is part of the Kuiper Belt which is a circumstellar disc beyond the orbit of Neptune. Pluto is one of the largest objects in the Kuiper Belt as well. But surprisingly Pluto can be closer to the Sun than Neptune is, for about 20 years. It has low temperatures on the surface. Pluto's coolest temperature reaches -233 degrees Celsius. Pluto also takes 246.04 Earth years to orbit the Sun fully, once.  

Type- Dwarf Planet

Made of- Ice, small rocky core(might contain some metal)

Temperature- (-233 C)

Diameter- 2,376.6 km

Mass- 1.30900 x 10^22 kg

Distance from Sun- 5,906,292,480 km

Distance from Earth- 7.5 billion km