DEFINITION OF A PLANET

“A non-luminous celestial
body larger than an asteroid
or comet, illuminated by light
from a star, such as the sun,
around which it revolves.”
(www.nasa.gov)
WHAT IS A DWARF PLANET?
WHY PLUTO ISN’T ANYMORE
CONSIDERED A PLANET?

WHEN THEY DISCOVERED

COMETS AND ASTEROIDS
BIGGER THAN PLUTO THEY
DECIDED THAT PLUTO WAS TO
SMALL FOR BEING A PLANET.
 PLUTO DISCOVERER
In February 18,1930
a man named Clyde
W.Tombaugh
discovered Pluto.
(www.wikipedia.org)

He discovered Pluto
using a Newtonian
Telescope.
www.nasa.gov

PLUTO’S SIZE

CHARON
is the PLUTO
moon of is the
Pluto second
and its largest
half its dwarf
size. planet.
(after
Eris)
PLUTO’S TEMPERATURE

VERY COLD

Freezi
ng
 PLUTO’S MATERIALS

AS ROCK
IC E G
NE
HA
E T NITROGEN
M
PLUTO SPINS ON IT’S AXIS

ONE
PLU DA YO
TO = N
EAR 6
TH D
AYS
.
PLUTO’S REVOLUTION
AROUND THE SUN

ONE REVOLUTION AROUND

THE SUN = 248 EARTH
YEARS.
 CHARON

CHARON IS
THE
BIGGEST
MOON OF
PLUTO.
CHARON
 NIX
NIX

NIX IS A NATURAL
SATELLITE OF
PLUTO AND WAS
DISCOVERED IN
2005.
 HYDRA

HYDRA IS A
NATURAL
SATELLITE OF
PLUTO AND IT WAS
DISCOVERED IN
2005 BY THE HUBBLE
SPACE TELESCOPE.