how far away is pluto from earth?
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The distance between Earth and Pluto varies as the two planets move around their orbits. When they are closest, they are about 29 A.U. apart; at most, the distance is about 51 A.U. Since light travels about 300,000 kilometers each second, it would take light anywhere between 8 hours and 14 hours to make the round-trip journey to Pluto from Earth.\n\nRadio signals travel at the same speed as light. If you were using radio signals to control a robot on Pluto, you would have to be very patient. If you sent your robot a command to move, the command would arrive at least 4 hours later. Then, if your robot took a picture and sent it back to Earth, it would take at least 4 more hours before you could see that picture! \n\n\n\nAU\n\nAU, which stands for "astronomical unit", is a unit for measuring distance. One AU is the average distance from the Sun's center to the Earth's center. It is equal to 149,597,871 km (92,955,807 miles).\n\nAUs are often more convenient to use than kilometers when measuring large distances such as those in space. In this case kilometers are just too small - it would be like measuring the distance from Boston to San Francisco in inches. AUs simply make a measurement easier to understand and give you something to compare it to.\n\nFor example, Saturn's orbit around the Sun has an average radius of 9.5 AU, which means that Saturn is about ten times farther from the Sun than Earth is. The average distance from the Sun to distant Pluto is about 40 AU. Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, orbits at an average distance of 0.39 AU.\n\nAUs are generally used for measurements of distances within our Solar System. Distances to stars are much larger, and are expressed in terms of light years. One light year is equal to more than 63,000 AUs. The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is just over 4 light years away.\n\nAlthough Pluto was discovered in 1930, limited information on the distant planet delayed a realistic understanding of its characteristics. Today Pluto remains the only planet that has not been visited by a spacecraft, yet an increasing amount of information is unfolding about this peculiar planet. The uniqueness of Pluto's orbit, rotational relationship with its satellite, spin axis, and light variations all give the planet a certain appeal.\n\nPluto is usually farther from the Sun than any of the nine planets; however, due to the eccentricity of its orbit, it is closer than Neptune for 20 years out of its 249 year orbit. Pluto crossed Neptune's orbit January 21, 1979, made its closest approach September 5, 1989, and will remain within the orbit of Neptune until February 11, 1999. This will not occur again until September 2226.\n\nAs Pluto approaches perihelion it reaches its maximum distance from the ecliptic due to its 17-degree inclination. Thus, it is far above or below the plane of Neptune's orbit. Under these conditions, Pluto and Neptune will not collide and do not approach closer than 18 A.U. to one another.\n\nPluto's rotation period is 6.387 days, the same as its satellite Charon. Although it is common for a satellite to travel in a synchronous orbit with its planet, Pluto is the only planet to rotate synchronously with the orbit of its satellite. Thus being tidally locked, Pluto and Charon continuously face each other as they travel through space.\n\nUnlike most planets, but similar to Uranus, Pluto rotates with its poles almost in its orbital plane. Pluto's rotational axis is tipped 122 degrees. When Pluto was first discovered, its relatively bright south polar region was the view seen from the Earth. Pluto appeared to grow dim as our viewpoint gradually shifted from nearly pole-on in 1954 to nearly equator-on in 1973. Pluto's equator is now the view seen from Earth.\n\nDuring the period from 1985 through 1990, Earth was aligned with the orbit of Charon around Pluto such that an eclipse could be observed every Pluto day. This provided opportunity to col
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On Feb 5th, 2006 at 9:05 PM PST Pluto is located \n\n31.704 AU or\n47.556 x 10^8 km or\n2.947 billion miles\n\naway from the Earth.
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Far less than a light year!\n\nConsidering that Pluto is on average about 5913520000 Km from the Sun and that 1 LY equals 9460800000000 Km, you have that Pluto is 0,000625055 LY far from the Sun.\n\nYes, 1 LY is a huge distance.
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Pluto is not a planet anymore... it is now a "dwarf planet."\n\nWhen it is outside Neptune's Orbit, it is 8 planets away from the Sun and when it is inside Neptune's Orbit, it is 7 planets away from the Sun.  \n\nPluto has a very eccentric orbit and spends 20 year chunks of time closer to the Sun than Neptune.\n\nAloha
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some of the planets wouldn´t be perceptible with a naked eye, and i think Pluto would be as much as half inch away of the sun.\nWhy don't you do some math starting with the actual size of the sun and an average orange to make some kind of scale and do the same with all the planets and the distances. I think you have some work to do.
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On average, the distance is 384401 kilometres (238857 mi). There are of course variations in this distance due to the imperfect nature of the moon's orbit.
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Pluto facts:\n\nDiscovered at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona where Northern Arizona University is located.  This observatory was initially used to look for canals on Mars.\n\nIt is debated as a planet, because it does not fit the density patterns observed from other planets in the solar system.\n\nIt has an atmosphere, which is odd given its size.\n\nIts moon, Charon, is actually located within its atmosphere, which almost makes it a double planet.\n\nIt is approximately 40 AU from the sun, which is 40 times the distance between the sun and the earth.\n\nPluto may not be the last planet in the solar system, as there is evidence of a planet, known as Xena.\n\nAfter the discovery of Neptune, some people were still concerned over a variation in gravitational forces, and the search began.\n\nPhotos of Pluto were taken in 1915 and were not discovered for almost 15 years.\n\nPluto has the highest eccentric orbit of the known planets, that is it is much more elliptical rather than circular.\n\nIs this enough?
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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 is 4,583,000,000 miles from the sun at maximum; 2,757,000,000 at minimum.  Since Neptune goes out as far as 2,824,000,000 it is occasionally closer in than Neptune!
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It's temporary name is 2003 UB313.  It will not be called "pluto 2000," because it will be named by astronomers rather than 12-year-old boys.  It will most likely be named for a Roman diety like the other planets were.  And it is not the same distance from the sun as Pluto is (nor is it equidistant from the two bodies as your wording suggests), but is actually over twice as far from the Sun as Pluto is.  Pluto is about 40AU from the sun (although this distance varies significantly due to Pluto's highly eliptical orbit), whereas 2003 UB313 is about 97AU from the sun.
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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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Your question is very vague and almost meaningless without more details added.\n\nWhere are all these objects in relation to Pluto?  What is there distance away?  Are they sitting on the surface, or are they here on Earth?  When someone says "all objects", do they really mean ALL objects?  Obviously, I am sitting here on Earth and Pluto is exerting a very weak attractive force on me, but I am not accelerating towards it since my over all net force is directed much greater toward to Earth and toward the sun.\n\nForce = mass * acceleration\ngravitational Force = (G * m1 * m2) / r^2
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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..a cinch. Just go to Disneyland and wander around you are bound to find Pluto.  You an even hug him if you like!\n\nThe center of the Earth well that's hundreds, if not thousands of years in the future.  The heat and the pressure of molten iron (although at the exact center of the earth one would be in an anti gravity environment..like in outer space, because the mass of the earth is pulling on you exactly the same from all points around you).  The heat and pressure are unimaginable and it will take man many many generations to solve this problem.  We might just send a probe there..why risk a human being. Androids will like molten iron...they can relate to it..right!
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Ten. A new planet has been discovered that is approximately the same size as Pluto. It has not yet been formally named. Check http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/newplanet-072905-images.html for more info:)
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Pluto Statistics \nDiscovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh \nDate of discovery February 18, 1930 \nMass (kg) 1.27e+22 \nMass (Earth = 1) 2.125e-03 \nEquatorial radius (km) 1,137 \nEquatorial radius (Earth = 1) 0.1783 \nMean density (gm/cm^3) 2.05 \nMean distance from the Sun (km) 5,913,520,000 \nMean distance from the Sun (Earth = 1)) 39.5294 \nRotational period (days) -6.3872 \nOrbital period (years) 248.54 \nMean orbital velocity (km/sec) 4.74 \nOrbital eccentricity 0.2482 \nTilt of axis (degrees) 122.52 \nOrbital inclination (degrees) 17.148 \nEquatorial surface gravity (m/sec^2) 0.4 \nEquatorial escape velocity (km/sec) 1.22 \nVisual geometric albedo 0.3 \nMagnitude (Vo) 15.12 \nAtmospheric composition \nMethane\nNitrogen 0.3
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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!