The Ninth Planet: PLUTO

The planet Pluto and its moon, Charon, taken by the Hubble Telescope

Want To Know More About Setsuna's Planet? Here Are Some Interesting Facts ...

• The 9th planet from the sun
• Named after the Roman god of the Netherworld
• Discovered in 1930
• Has one known moon, Charon
• The most remote in our solar system
• 40 times farther from the Sun than the Earth
• Temperatures are between -228 and -238 degrees Celsius
• Surface consists mostly of frozen nitrogen
• One Pluto day = 6 days, 9 hours Earth time
• One Pluto year = 248 Earth years

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