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Pluto (NASA)
It was Clyde William Tombaugh, an American astronomer, who discovered Pluto in 1930.
Here are 10 things you need to know about Pluto as contained in United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) real time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration called “Science Solar System Exploration.”
1. Pluto is about 1,400 miles (2,380 km) wide. That’s about half the width of the United States, or 2/3 the width of Earth’s moon.
2. Pluto orbits the Sun about 3.6 billion miles (5.8 billion km) away on average, about 40 times as far as Earth, in a region called the Kuiper Belt.
3. A year on Pluto is 248 Earth years. A day on Pluto lasts 153 hours, or about six Earth days.
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