Pluto - Wikipedia. Pluto Discovery. Discovered by. Clyde W. Tombaugh.

Discovery date. February 1. Designations. MPC designation. Pluto. Pronunciationi. Named after. Pluto. Adjectives. Plutonian.

Orbital characteristics. It was the first Kuiper belt object to be discovered. Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1. Sun. After 1. 99. Kuiper belt. In 2.

Eris, a dwarf planet in the scattered disc which is 2. Pluto, was discovered. This led the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to define the term . That definition excluded Pluto and reclassified it as a dwarf planet.

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Pluto is the largest and second- most- massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the ninth- largest and tenth- most- massive known object directly orbiting the Sun. It is the largest known trans- Neptunian object by volume but is less massive than Eris. Watch online Siri For Republicans with subtitles in 4K.

Like other Kuiper belt objects, Pluto is primarily made of ice and rock and is relatively small—about one- sixth the mass of the Moon and one- third its volume. It has a moderately eccentric and inclined orbit during which it ranges from 3. AU (4. 4–7. 4 billion km) from the Sun.

This means that Pluto periodically comes closer to the Sun than Neptune, but a stable orbital resonance with Neptune prevents them from colliding. Light from the Sun takes about 5. Pluto at its average distance (3.

AU). Pluto has five known moons: Charon (the largest, with a diameter just over half that of Pluto), Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra. Pluto and Charon are sometimes considered a binary system because the barycenter of their orbits does not lie within either body. On July 1. 4, 2. 01. New Horizons spacecraft became the first spacecraft to fly by Pluto. During its brief flyby, New Horizons made detailed measurements and observations of Pluto and its moons.

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In September 2. 01. Charon is composed of tholins, organicmacromolecules that may be ingredients for the emergence of life, and produced from methane, nitrogen and other gases released from the atmosphere of Pluto and transferred about 1. History. Discovery. Discovery photographs of Pluto. Clyde Tombaugh, in Kansas. In the 1. 84. 0s, Urbain Le Verrier used Newtonian mechanics to predict the position of the then- undiscovered planet Neptune after analyzing perturbations in the orbit of Uranus. Pickering had suggested several possible celestial coordinates for such a planet.

Unknown to Lowell, his surveys had captured two faint images of Pluto on March 1. April 7, 1. 91. 5, but they were not recognized for what they were. Using a blink comparator, he rapidly shifted back and forth between views of each of the plates to create the illusion of movement of any objects that had changed position or appearance between photographs. On February 1. 8, 1.

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Tombaugh discovered a possible moving object on photographic plates taken on January 2. A lesser- quality photograph taken on January 2. After the observatory obtained further confirmatory photographs, news of the discovery was telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory on March 1. Lowell Observatory, which had the right to name the new object, received more than 1,0. Atlas to Zymal. These suggestions were disregarded. Pluto received every vote.

The name was announced on May 1, 1. Pluto's astronomical symbol (, Unicode U+2.

In 1. 93. 0, Walt Disney was apparently inspired by it when he introduced for Mickey Mouse a canine companion named Pluto, although Disney animator Ben Sharpsteen could not confirm why the name was given. Seaborg named the newly created elementplutonium after Pluto, in keeping with the tradition of naming elements after newly discovered planets, following uranium, which was named after Uranus, and neptunium, which was named after Neptune. In 1. 93. 1, Pluto was calculated to be roughly the mass of Earth, with further calculations in 1.

Mars. Subsequent searches for an alternative Planet X, notably by Robert Sutton Harrington. In 1. 99. 2, Myles Standish used data from Voyager 2's flyby of Neptune in 1.

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Neptune's mass downward by 0. Mars—to recalculate its gravitational effect on Uranus. With the new figures added in, the discrepancies, and with them the need for a Planet X, vanished.

Brown concluded soon after Pluto's discovery that this was a coincidence. This made its official status as a planet controversial, with many questioning whether Pluto should be considered together with or separately from its surrounding population. Museum and planetarium directors occasionally created controversy by omitting Pluto from planetary models of the Solar System. The Hayden Planetarium reopened—in February 2. On July 2. 9, 2. 00.

Caltech announced the discovery of a new trans- Neptunian object, Eris, which was substantially more massive than Pluto and the most massive object discovered in the Solar System since Triton in 1. Its discoverers and the press initially called it the tenth planet, although there was no official consensus at the time on whether to call it a planet. According to this resolution, there are three conditions for an object in the Solar System to be considered a planet: The object must be in orbit around the Sun. The object must be massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity. More specifically, its own gravity should pull it into a shape defined by hydrostatic equilibrium.

It must have cleared the neighborhood around its orbit. On September 1. 3, 2. IAU included Pluto, and Eris and its moon Dysnomia, in their Minor Planet Catalogue, giving them the official minor planet designations .

Buie, then at the Lowell Observatory petitioned against the definition. Mike Brown, the astronomer who discovered Eris, said . It's been a long time coming. Science is self- correcting eventually, even when strong emotions are involved. Many accepted the reclassification, but some sought to overturn the decision with online petitions urging the IAU to consider reinstatement. A resolution introduced by some members of the California State Assembly facetiously called the IAU decision a . The resolution asserted that Pluto was .

Its orbital characteristics are substantially different from those of the planets, which follow nearly circular orbits around the Sun close to a flat reference plane called the ecliptic. In contrast, Pluto's orbit is moderately inclined relative to the ecliptic (over 1. This eccentricity means a small region of Pluto's orbit lies nearer the Sun than Neptune's. The Pluto–Charon barycenter came to perihelion on September 5, 1. Computer simulations can be used to predict its position for several million years (both forward and backward in time), but after intervals longer than the Lyapunov time of 1. Pluto is sensitive to immeasurably small details of the Solar System, hard- to- predict factors that will gradually change Pluto's position in its orbit. The darker halves of both orbits show where they pass below the plane of the ecliptic.

Relationship with Neptune. Despite Pluto's orbit appearing to cross that of Neptune when viewed from directly above, the two objects' orbits are aligned so that they can never collide or even approach closely. The two orbits do not intersect. When Pluto is closest to the Sun, and hence closest to Neptune's orbit as viewed from above, it is also the farthest above Neptune's path. Pluto's orbit passes about 8 AU above that of Neptune, preventing a collision. Pluto is also protected by its 2: 3 orbital resonance with Neptune: for every two orbits that Pluto makes around the Sun, Neptune makes three. Each cycle lasts about 5.

This pattern is such that, in each 5. Pluto is near perihelion, Neptune is over 5. By Pluto's second perihelion, Neptune will have completed a further one and a half of its own orbits, and so will be a similar distance ahead of Pluto. Pluto and Neptune's minimum separation is over 1. AU, which is greater than Pluto's minimum separation from Uranus (1. AU). Even if Pluto's orbit were not inclined, the two bodies could never collide. These arise principally from two additional mechanisms (besides the 2: 3 mean- motion resonance).

First, Pluto's argument of perihelion, the angle between the point where it crosses the ecliptic and the point where it is closest to the Sun, librates around 9. This is a consequence of the Kozai mechanism. Relative to Neptune, the amplitude of libration is 3. The closest such angular separation occurs every 1.

When the two longitudes are the same—that is, when one could draw a straight line through both nodes and the Sun—Pluto's perihelion lies exactly at 9. This is known as the 1: 1 superresonance. All the Jovian planets, particularly Jupiter, play a role in the creation of the superresonance. The strong gravitational pull between the two causes angular momentum to be transferred to Pluto, at Neptune's expense. This moves Pluto into a slightly larger orbit, where it travels slightly more slowly, according to Kepler's third law. As its orbit changes, this has the gradual effect of changing the perihelion and longitude of its orbit (and, to a lesser degree, that of Neptune). After many such repetitions, Pluto is sufficiently slowed, and Neptune sufficiently speeded up, that Neptune begins to catch up with Pluto at the opposite side of its orbit (near the opposing node to where we began).

The process is then reversed, and Pluto loses angular momentum to Neptune, until Pluto is sufficiently speeded up that it begins to catch Neptune again at the original node. The whole process takes about 2.

Research from University of Arizona has suggested that it may be due to the way that a body's spin will always adjust to minimise energy. This could mean a body reorienting itself to put extraneous mass near the equator and regions lacking mass tend towards the poles. This is called polar wander. These masses would cause the body to reorientate itself, leading to its unusual axial tilt of 1. The buildup of nitrogen is due to Pluto's vast distance from the Sun.

At the equator, temperatures can drop to . The same effect seen on Pluto would be observed on Earth if the Antarctic ice sheet was several times larger.