How Pluto is formed
5 Interesting Details
Fact 1pluto was the last planet to be discoved in our solar system.
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fact 2some scientists think that pluto was one of neptunes moons because it is so small a bolder is biger than it.
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fact 3and then scientisis found out that it moved away from neptune and then they said that it was"int one of its moons.
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fact 4pluto is the very smallest planet and the last one in the solar system.
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fact 5pluto has one big moon it is called charon.
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Pluto's moon
- Charon is pluto's moon. it's moon is cold because it has ice and water like pluto has to.The Plutonian system is highly compact: the five known satellites orbit within the inner 3% of the region where prograde orbits would be stable.Until 1978 it was believed that Pluto was much larger. Through a telescope on Earth, Charon and Pluto look like they are the same object. However, in 1978, Jim Christy discovered that what we used to think was one object was really two. Astronomers probably thought they were one object because they are so close to each other. Charon is also almost as big as Pluto.Charon and Pluto keep the same face towards each other at all times. This means that imaginary aliens living on one side of Charon would never see Pluto, and imaginary aliens living on the opposite side of Pluto would never see Charon.
Charon is named for the god who ferried the dead across the River Acheron into the underworld.
Pluto's second moon is called Nix. It is much, much smaller than Charon
Below is a video of Pluto's moons.