Pluto

Pluto was named by an 11 year old girl after the roman god of the underworld in 1930. It is classified as a dwarf planet. Puto has 5 moons, the biggest being charon. It is so big that it and pluto orbit each other. Unlike the other planets, Pluto’s orbit is tilted and oval-shaped.

Pluto is a rocky planet that has quite a low density. It’s surface is full of mountains, craters and valleys. It has a rocky core and a mantle of ice. On the surface of Pluto is a heart-shaped glacier which is also the biggest in the solar system. It has a thin atomosphere made up of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane. It’s day is 153 hours and it’s year 248 earth days. The surface has a temperature around -400 degrees fahrenheight. It often snows in the winter.