How often does Pluto become the 5th farthest planet from the sun?
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Pluto is the 9th farthest planet form the sun. Sometimes it becomes the 8th farthest planet. Once in every 248 years for 20 yrs.\n\npluto is considered by some to not be a planet at all.  If u want i will tell u the reasons
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Rotation: 6 Earth days is the length of one of Pluto's days...also... Revolution: 1 year on Pluto = 248 Earth years
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do you mean in relation to Earth?\n\nEach Pluto day takes 6.39 Earth days and 1 Pluto year takes 247.7 Earth years...\n\nNow THAT would make birthdays nice and cheap!
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Over 2 years ago, scientists DID find a 10th planet beyond Pluto, and it's even larger than Pluto. The planet is a typical member of the Kuiper belt, but its sheer size in relation to the nine known planets means that it can only be classified as a planet. Currently about 97 times further from the sun than the Earth, the planet is the farthest-known object in the solar system, and the third brightest of the Kuiper belt objects. \n\nFor images and info, check the NASA web site: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/newplanet-072905.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_%28dwarf_planet%29\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto\n\nyou must be asking about "136199 eris", but it is not a planet.  it is about five percent bigger than "134340 pluto", but neither are planets.  the solar system has eight planets.  they are mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus, and neptune.\n\n"136199 eris" and "134340 pluto" do orbit the sun, are ball-shaped, do not have an isolated orbit (a bunch of other similar bodies have similar orbits.), and are not a satellites so they are not a planets.\n\non 24 august 2006, the international astronomical union decided that pluto should not be categorized as a planet.  i have been waiting for this since i was about ten when i learned that pluto didn't fit the pattern set by the major bodies in the solar system so it was an anomaly. it just felt "out of place". now that astronomers have found hundreds of other bodies with similar orbits, classifying "134340 pluto" as a planet is even more irrational. i feel somewhat satisfied, but i don't know how long this will drag on tho. many planetary astronomers are satisfied that the definition is rigorous enuf. i can accept that the definition is flawed, but i can not accept that "134340 pluto" is a planet.\n\nthis was the right thing to do, believe me. this does not change anything about pluto or the solar system. this just corrects the mistake of classifying pluto as a planet initially.\n\nmany astronomers consider pluto and charon to be a binary system, but two small bodies orbit that system. they are called nix and hydra.\n\nincidentally, "134340 pluto" was never a moon of neptune. neptune did capture triton. this is why triton has a retrograde orbit.
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To begin with, pluto unlike the other planets does not orbit the same war around the Sun like the other planets. Pluto's orbit is oval. There will be a time where by pluto will be closer to the Sun then Neptune for every 22 years. So thats 1 point to think about. Also some scientist debate that Pluto is juz a passing by asteroid that got attracted to the solar system gravitational field. Pluto is also much smaller in size to be a gaseous planet comparing to Uranus or Neptune which is all gaseous planet.
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Pluto.\n\nPluto\nTiny Pluto is the last planet in our family. The dark, cold planet's average distance from the Sun is a little over 3.5 billion (3,500,000,000) miles. If you tried to step off this distance, you would be over two miles away from your Sun when you reached the location of Pluto. If you got on a jet and flew at 600 miles per hour from the Sun to Pluto, it would take 675 years. If you could drive the same distance, it would take over 5,700 years.
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From Wikipedia - enjoy!\n\nPluto orbits in a 3:2 orbital resonance with Neptune. When Neptune approaches Pluto from behind their gravity starts to pull on each other slightly, resulting in an interaction between their positions in orbit of the same sort that produces Trojan points. Since the orbits are eccentric, the 3:2 periodic ratio is favoured because this means Neptune always passes Pluto when they are almost farthest apart. Half a Pluto orbit later, when Pluto is nearing its closest approach, it initially seems as if Neptune is about to catch up to Pluto. But Pluto speeds up due to the gravitational acceleration from the Sun, stays ahead of Neptune, and pulls ahead until they meet again on the other side of Pluto's orbit.
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http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/ast99/ast99241.htm\n\nAnswer:  The average orbital radius of Pluto is 3660 million miles; however, its \norbit is more eccentric than the other planets, so much so that it is currently\ninside the orbit of Neptune (radius 2793 million miles) and will remain so until \n1999.\nHawley\n\n1KM = 0.6M
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There are still 9 according to the latests NASA reports. Although it has been found that there are several other small objects orbiting past Neptune that are similar in make up and size to Pluto- that pluto's categorization of planet will not be changed. That instead a number system is being talked about to go into effect that will number the bundles of pluto-like objects. Though again, pluto would not be changed. (First Source)\n\nIf it weren't for the stubborn desire to keep tradition- Pluto WOULD NOT be considered a planet, it just does not have the characteristics to make it one. But because tradition is very important in this society- Pluto remains a planet for now.
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Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. the asteroid belt is located between the 5th planet (Mars) and the planet Jupiter
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NO, WHEN PLUTO WAS FORMED IT WAS STRAIGH AWAY GIVEN NAME PLUTO WAS DISCOVERED BY  Clyde W. Tombaugh \nDiscovered on February 18, 1930 \nABT THE MISTRY OF PLANET-X THEN ITS THE PLANET SOMEWHERE FAR FROM PLUTO.
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Right now there are officially 9.  Depending on what we decide in the next year or so that number will change to 8, stay 9, go to 10, or even larger.  An object larger than Pluto has been found, but we have not granted it official status as a planet.  Don't expect this issue to be resolved any time soon, we've more or less "tabled" the issue until our general meeting in August.
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According to one website Pluto has a "sidereal period of revolution about the sun of 248.5 years."
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They won't, because their orbits are so different. Pluto intersects the solar system's ecliptic, or orbital plane, twice as its orbit brings it "above," then "below" that plane where most of the other planets' revolve -- including Neptune. And, though they are neighbors Pluto and Neptune are always more than a billion miles apart.
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The new planet is the most distant object ever seen in orbit around the sun, even more distant than Sedna, the planetoid discovered almost 2 years ago. It is almost 10 billion miles from the sun and more than 3 times more distant than the next closest planet, Pluto and takes more than twice as long to orbit the sun as Pluto.
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Pluto — Distance From Sun: 5 913 520 000 KM