Pluto
Monday, April 29, 2024
Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our solar system's ninth planet. But after the discovery of similar intriguing worlds deeper in the distant Kuiper Belt, icy Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet. This new class of worlds may offer some of the best evidence about the origins our solar system. -[NASA]
Changing Data
- Rises:
- Sets:
- Apparent Magnitude:
- Illumination:
- %
- Size (")
- Distance in light minutes:
- Distance in miles:
- 0
- Distance in AU:
Orbital Data
- Rotational Period:
- -6.387
- Orbital Period:
- 247.92065
- Perihelion:
- 4.437 * 109 km
- Aphelion:
- 7.376 * 109 km
- Epoch:
- 2011.08.27
- Inclination:
- 17.14°
- Semi-Major Axis:
- 5.906 * 109 km
- Orbit Circumference:
- 3.653 * 1010 km
- Eccentricity:
- 0.2488273
- Ascending Node:
- 110.30327°
- Axial Tilt:
- 122.5°
- Albedo:
- Color BV:
- Color UV:
- Equatorial Diameter:
- 2.302 * 103 km
- Equatorial Circumference:
- 7.232 * 103 km
- Surface Area:
- 1.665 * 107 km2
- Surface Gravity:
- 0.66 m/s2
- Surface Temperature:
- -233 - -223
- Mass:
- 1.309 * 1022 kg
- Volume:
- 6.38726 * 109 km3
- Density:
- 2.050 g/cm3
- Absolute Magnitude:
- -0.7