wat is the distance between neptune and pluto?
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Neptune's distance from the Sun 30.06 A.U. 4478.26 x 106 km\nPluto's distance from the Sun 39.48 A.U.   5906.38 x 106 km\n \n9.42 A.U. 1428.12 X 106 km (approximately when Pluto is the 9th planet) This is each planets distance from the sun subtracted from each other.  hope this helps
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pluto's volume is 7.15 x 10^9 km^3\npluto's overall density is about 2 g/cm^3\n\nlook here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto#Physical_characteristics
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Actually, you're all wrong.  It's 2003 UB313 the recently discovered 10th planet which has not yet been given a perminent name.  As of July, 2005, the planet 2003 UB313 was approximately 97 AU from the sun, over twice the distance between the sun and Pluto (40 AU).\n\nIf you're actually wondering about the 2nd farthes planet (which may be the case as most people don't know about 2003 UB313), most of the time (including the present) it's Pluto, but Pluto has a crazy eliptical orbit (one of the reasons its status as a planet is debatable), and sometimes crosses paths with Neptune.  When I learned the order of the planets in 2nd grade, Neptune was farther away than Pluto, so instead of "my very educated mother just served us nine pizzas," we learned "my very educated mother just served us pistachio nuts."
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UB313, the 10th "planet" that is said to be bigger than Pluto.\n\nI'm not lying, read all the sources.\nBTW, the CNN news which adds support to the discovered planet is dated February 2, 2006.
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The New Horizons mission will make the planned closest approach to Pluto at 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles) and will be going about 14 kilometers/second (31,300 miles per hour).\n\nSee the NASA website image at:\nhttp://pluto.jhuapl.edu/mission/images/pluto_encounter3.jpg\n\nHope this helps!
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its probably half way to pluto by now. you could write the plutonians and ask them to email it back to you, this may take a few days though.
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Wow, just asked my 10year old same question.  He said it is a planet they have recently discovered about twice the distance of Pluto.
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The diameter appears to be 2400 km = 1500 miles.\n\nIts distance from the sun varies between 37.77 AU (5.65 Tm) and 97.56 AU (14.60 Tm).  Earth's distance from the sun is 1 AU (0.15 Tm).  So the distance between Earth and Xena would be between 36.77 AU (5.50 Tm) and 98.56 AU (14.75 Tm).\n\nOne light-year is about 9467 Tm (terametres, or trillion metres).  So the distance between Earth and Xena would be between 0.00058 LY and 0.00156 LY.\n\n(Light-years aren't a very handy unit of distance within the Solar System.)\n\nFinally, Xena isn't called a planet yet.  Heck, we're still arguing about whether Pluto should be called a planet....
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Features of Pluto and Charon\n\nPluto is the only planet that has not been visited by a spacecraft. It is so tiny, and so far away that even the Hubble space telescope has trouble resolving any surface features on the planet. With a diameter of only 1412 miles (2274 km, Pluto is the smallest planet in the solar system. Because of its small size, many astronomers believe that it should be classified as an asteroid instead of a planet. In fact, Pluto represents one of the great mysteries of our solar system. No one knows why this small, rocky  planet can be found among the giant gas planets of the outer solar system. Some believe that Pluto and Charon may be asteroids or comets that somehow got locked into an orbit around the Sun. Many astrononers now believe that they are actually part of the Kuiper belt and should not be classified as planets. The Kupier belt is a ring of rocky, icy objects located beyond the orbit of Pluto. Serious consideration has been given to removing Pluto from the list of planets, but the the public's fondness for this lonely wanderer will probably keep it there for some time to come. Between 1985 and 1990, the Earth was aligned with the orbits of Pluto and Charon in such a way that a series of eclipses would take place. Astronomers were able to take advantage of this situation to accurately determine the size of both Pluto and Charon, and to create the first image of Pluto showing some of its larger surface features. This revealed that Pluto is the second most contrasty body in the solar system. Astronomers are hoping that a future space probe may one day be able to show us the surface of this strange and distant world. But until then, every new discovery will bring with it a long list of new questions.\n\n\nStatistics for Pluto\nDiscovered by ...... Clyde W. Tombaugh\nYear of Discovery ...... 1930\nDiameter ...... 1412 miles (2274 km)\nNumber of Natural Satellites ...... 1\nMean Distance from the Sun ...... 3,673,537,000 miles (5,913,520,000 km)\nRotational Period ...... 6.3 days\nOrbital Period ...... 248 years\nOrbital Eccentricity ...... 0.250\nOrbital Inclination ...... 17.14 degrees\nInclination of Axis ...... 122.5 degrees\nMean Surface Temperature ...... -382° F (-230° C)\nMain Atmospheric Component ...... Methane\nApparent Magnitude ...... 15.12
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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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given the figures, another way to "imagine" how far it is\n IS that Light (at 186,000miles/sec)takes about 8.3 minutes to get to earth from the sun and takes 5.5 hours to get to pluto\n\nPluto is 40 times the distance away from the sun as the earth \n\nOver 11,000 earths will fit between the sun and earth if lined up so about 460,000 earths fit between the sun and pluto.\n\nAlso if the Sun was a beach ball, the earth would be a pea and Pluto would be A LARGE grain of sand.\n\n\n\nThe numbers are often useless unless we "translate them" into "concrete" terms because we have peas er I mean grains of sand for brains ;)))).
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the planet?Pluto is the farthest planet from the Sun (usually) and by far the smallest. Pluto is smaller than seven of the solar system's moons (the Moon, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Titan and Triton). \n\n        orbit:    5,913,520,000 km (39.5 AU) from the Sun (average)\n        diameter: 2274 km\n        mass:     1.27e22 kg\nIn Roman mythology, Pluto (Greek: Hades) is the god of the underworld. The planet received this name (after many other suggestions) perhaps because it's so far from the Sun that it is in perpetual darkness and perhaps because "PL" are the initials of Percival Lowell. \nPluto was discovered in 1930 by a fortunate accident. Calculations which later turned out to be in error had predicted a planet beyond Neptune, based on the motions of Uranus and Neptune. Not knowing of the error, Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Arizona did a very careful sky survey which turned up Pluto anyway. \nAfter the discovery of Pluto, it was quickly determined that Pluto was too small to account for the discrepancies in the orbits of the other planets. The search for Planet X continued but nothing was found. Nor is it likely that it ever will be: the discrepancies vanish if the mass of Neptune determined from the Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune is used. There is no Planet X. But that doesn't mean there aren't other objects out there, only that there isn't a relatively large and close one like Planet X was assumed to be. In fact, we now know that there are a very large number of smaller objects in the Kuiper Belt beyond the orbit of Neptune. \nPluto is the only planet that has not been visited by a spacecraft. Even the Hubble Space Telescope can resolve only the largest features on its surface (left and above). A spacecraft called New Horizons was launched in January 2006. If all goes well it should reach Pluto in 2015. \nFortunately, Pluto has a satellite, Charon. By good fortune, Charon was discovered (in 1978) just before its orbital plane moved edge-on toward the inner solar system. It was therefore possible to observe many transits of Pluto over Charon and vice versa. By carefully calculating which portions of which body would be covered at what times, and watching brightness curves, astronomers were able to construct a rough map of light and dark areas on both bodies. \nIn late 2005, a team using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered two additional tiny moons orbiting Pluto. Provisionally designated S/2005 P1 and S/2005 P2, they will be assigned real names when the discovery is confirmed. They are estimated to be between 60 and 200 kilometers in diameter. \nPluto's radius is not well known. JPL's value of 1137 is given with an error of +/-8, almost one percent. \nThough the sum of the masses of Pluto and Charon is known pretty well (it can be determined from careful measurements of the period and radius of Charon's orbit and basic physics) the individual masses of Pluto and Charon are difficult to determine because that requires determining their mutual motions around the center of mass of the system which requires much finer measurements -- they're so small and far away that even HST has difficulty. The ratio of their masses is probably somewhere between 0.084 and 0.157; more observations are underway but we won't get really accurate data until a spacecraft is sent. \nPluto is the second most contrasty body in the Solar System (after Iapetus). \nThere are some who think Pluto would be better classified as a large asteroid or comet rather than as a planet. Some consider it to be one of the larger Kuiper Belt objects (also known as Trans-Neptunian Objects). There is considerable merit to the latter position, but historically Pluto has been classified as a planet and it is very likely to remain so. Further complicating the situation, one such object (2003UB313) was recently discovered that is almost certainly larger than Pluto. Should it, too, be classified as
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Pluto is the fartherest planet, there is some discussion about it being a planet or not but for this answer we'll let it be one, from the sun during most of it's orbit. It's 5,913,520,000Km from the Sun.\nThe Main asteriod belt lies between Mars and Jupiter, roughly 374,172,480Km from the sun, the planets run Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune & Pluto.\nThe Kuiper Belt, made up of comets instead of asteriods, lies outside of the orbit of Pluto and some think Pluto is just a comet from this belt. Then going way on out past the Kuiper Belt you run into the Oort Cloud roughly 22,450,348,800,000Km from the Sun and made up of trillions of cometary bodies.
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A) Galaxy, about 100,000 years.\n\nB) Sun, about 5 seconds\n\nC) Solar System, it depends on if you mean the orbit of Pluto or all the way out to the Oort cloud.
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The first spacecraft to visit the planet Pluto lifted off from Earth in January of 2006 and is expected to reach Pluto on July 14, 2015.  Pluto is so far from Earth that not even the Hubble Space telescope is able to take clear pictures of it.  Pluto's distance from the sun varies between 30 AU and 49 AU.  One AU is the distance between the Earth and the sun.  Pluto is so distant that man will very likely not visit for many 100's of years yet to come as we do not possess the technology to make the voyage to Pluto within an acceptable period of time.  Compare this to the distance between Earth and Mars which is only 0.37 AU (35 million miles).
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Depends on how far away an object is from Pluto. It does not, however, depend on the mass of the object as a previous user stated (the gravitational force does, but acceleration does not). Try dropping two objects with different masses from the same height at the same time. They will hit the floor at almost the exact same time (maybe slightly off due to wind resistance and human error).\n\nAcceleration towards any planet (or any object for that matter) is equal to G*m/(r^2), where G = 6.67 x 10^-11 N*m^2/kg^2 is the universal gravitation constant, m is the mass of the planet measured in kilograms, and r is the distance of the object from the center of the planet measured in meters. You can find the mass of Pluto and the various distances to the planets at the site below.
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The sun. The sun is, on average, 93 million miles from the earth. Pluto orbits the sun over 2 billion miles away. The nearest star is over 4 light years away. (Light travels 186,000 miles, or about 300,000,000 meters, in a second - try figuring out how far that is in a year!) The nearest galaxy is over 4 million light years away - an amazing distance!