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Pluto was discovered in 1930 by an astronomer from the United States. An
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is a person who studies
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and other objects in space.
On average, Pluto is
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than 3.6 billion miles (5.8 billion kilometers) away from the sun. That is about 40 times as far from the sun as Earth. Pluto orbits the
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in an oval like a racetrack. Because of its oval orbit, Pluto is
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closer to the sun than at other times. At its closest point to the sun Pluto is still
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of miles away. Pluto is only 1,400 miles (2,300 kilometers)
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. That's about half the
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of the United States. Pluto is slightly
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than Earth's moon. It takes Pluto 248 years to go around the sun. One
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on Pluto is about 6 1/2 days on Earth.
Pluto was
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by an 11-year-old girl from England. The dwarf planet has three
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. Its largest moon is named Charon and is
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half the size of Pluto. Maybe you can name something too!
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