how many lite years is pluto away from earth?
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Pluto is 6 Billion kilometers away from the sun.  Light takes about 5.5 hours to reach Pluto.  Which means Pluto is only 6 light HOURS away from the sun.
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New planet, discovered by the Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego, Calif., on Jan. 8, 2005,  is yet to be formally named.\n\n(This  newly-discovered object is more distant than the mysterious planetoid SEDNA discovered in 2003. Sedna is designated 2003 VB12.)\n\n Is at least as big as Pluto and about three times farther away from the Sun than Pluto. It is very cold and dark.It is currently about 97 times farther from the sun than Earth, or 97 Astronomical Units (AU). For comparison, Pluto is 40 AU from the sun. \n\nThis places the new planet more or less in the Kuiper Belt, a dark realm beyond Neptune where thousands of small icy bodies orbit the sun. The planet appears to be typical of Kuiper Belt objects--only much bigger. Its sheer size in relation to the nine known planets means that it can only be classified as a planet itself
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Wll the 10th planet is sedna.It has a vast amt. of ice on it.\nThe first detection of the long-hypothesized Oort cloud came in March 2004 when astronomers reported the discovery of a planetoid about 1,700 km (about 1,000 mi) in diameter.Pluto is about 2,360 km (1,475 mi) in diameter.\n\nThey named it Sedna, after a sea goddess in Inuit mythology in Greek Language.\nSedna was found about 13 billion km (about 8 billion mi) from the Sun. \n\nAt its farthest point from the Sun, Sedna is the most distant object in the solar system and is about 130 billion km (about 84 billion mi) from the Sun.
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If you still count Pluto as a planet, then it does. If I remember rightly it takes approx 248 years to orbit the sun.\nHowever, Pluto was declassified as a planet earlier this year so Nepune takes the longest to orbit the Sun. Approx 165 years.
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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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This is the clearest view yet of the distant planet Pluto and its moon, Charon, as revealed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The image was taken by the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera on February 21, 1994 when the planet was 4.4 billion km (2.6 billion mi) from Earth. Hubble's corrected optics show the two objects as clearly separate and sharp disks. This has allowed astronomers to measure (to within about 1 percent) Pluto's diameter of 2320 km (1440 mi) and Charon's diameter of 1270 km (790 mi). The Hubble observations show that Charon is bluer than Pluto. This means that both worlds have different surface composition and structure. A bright highlight on Pluto suggests it has a smoothly reflecting surface layer.
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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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Pluto\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\nJump to: navigation, search\nFor other uses, see Pluto (disambiguation).\nPluto   \nDiscovery \nDiscovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh \nDiscovered on February 18, 1930 \nOrbital characteristics (Epoch J2000) \nSemi-major axis 5,906,376,272 km\n39.481 686 77 AU \nOrbital circumference 36.530 Tm\n244.186 AU \nEccentricity 0.248 807 66 \nPerihelion 4,436,824,613 km\n29.658 340 67 AU \nAphelion 7,375,927,931 km\n49.305 032 87 AU \nOrbital period 90,613.3055 d\n(248.09 a) \nSynodic period 366.73 d \nAvg. Orbital Speed 4.666 km/s \nMax. Orbital Speed 6.112 km/s \nMin. Orbital Speed 3.676 km/s \nInclination 17.141 75°\n(11.88° to Sun's equator) \nLongitude of the\nascending node 110.303 47° \nArgument of the\nperihelion 113.763 29° \nNumber of satellites 3 \nPhysical characteristics \nDiameter 2390 km [1]\n(19% of Earth, or\n1485 mi) \nSurface area 1.795×107 km²\n(0.033 Earths) \nVolume 7.15×109 km³\n(0.0066 Earths) \nMass (1.305±0.007)×1022 kg [2]\n(0.0021 Earths) \nMean density 2.03±0.06 g/cm³ [3] \nEquatorial gravity 0.58 m/s²\n(0.059 gee) \nEscape velocity 1.2 km/s \nRotation period −6.387230 d\n(6 d 9 h 17 m 36 s) \nRotation velocity 47.18 km/h (at the equator) \nAxial tilt 119.59° (to orbit)\n112.78° (to the ecliptic) \nRight ascension\nof North pole 133.045±0.02°\n(8 h 52 min 11 s) [4] \nDeclination -6.145±0.02° \nAlbedo 0.49–0.66 (varies by 35%) [5] [6] \nSurface temp. min mean max \n33 K 44 K 55 K \n \nAdjective Plutonian \nAtmospheric characteristics \nAtmospheric pressure 0.30 pascals (summer maximum) \nComposition nitrogen, methane \nNote: This article contains special characters. \nPluto (IPA: /ˈpluːtəʊ/), designated (134340) Pluto in the Minor Planet Center catalogue, is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the solar system. It orbits between 29 and 49 AU from the Sun, and was the first Kuiper Belt Object to be discovered. Approximately one-fifth the mass of the Earth's Moon, Pluto is primarily composed of rock and ice. It has an eccentric orbit that is highly inclined with respect to the planets and takes it closer to the Sun than Neptune during a portion of its orbit. Pluto and its largest satellite, Charon, could be considered a binary system because they are closer in size than any of the other known planetoid/moon combinations in the solar system, and because the barycentre of their orbits does not lie within either body. However, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has yet to formalize a definition for binary dwarf planets, so Charon is regarded as a moon of Pluto. Two smaller moons, Nix and Hydra, were discovered in 2005. Pluto is smaller than several of the natural satellites or moons in our solar system (see the list of solar system objects by radius).\n\nFrom its discovery by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930, Pluto was considered the ninth planet from the Sun. In the late 20th and early 21st century, many similar objects were discovered in the outer solar system, most notably the Trans-Neptunian object Eris which is slightly larger than Pluto. In August 2006 the IAU redefined the term "planet", and classified Pluto, Ceres, and Eris as dwarf planets.[1] Pluto is also classified as the prototype of a family of trans-Neptunian objects.[2][3] After the reclassification, Pluto was added to the list of minor planets and given the number 134340.[4][5]\n\nContents [hide]\n1 Discovery \n1.1 Relations to Neptune and Uranus \n1.2 Percival Lowell's influence \n1.3 Naming \n1.4 Symbol \n2 Physical characteristics \n2.1 Appearance \n2.2 Mass and size \n2.3 Atmosphere \n2.4 Composition \n2.5 Orbit \n2.5.1 Heliocentric distance \n2.6 Trans-Neptunian object \n2.7 Comet comparison \n3 Moons \n3.1 Charon \n3.2 Nix and Hydra \n3.3 Distribution \n3.4 Additional moons? \n4 Exploration of Pluto \n5 Planetary status controversy \n5.1 Omission from museum models \n5.2 Commemoration as a planet \n5.3 New discoveries ignite debate \n5.4 IAU Decisio
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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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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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Tiny 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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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto\n\non 24 august 2006, the international astronomical union reclassified pluto.\n\npluto does orbit the sun, is ball-shaped and is not a satellite, but it does not have an isolated orbit (a bunch of other similar bodies have similar orbits.) so it is not a planet.\n\ni 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\nthis same thing happened has happened before.  in 1800, an astronomer found a body orbiting between the orbits of mars and jupiter and thought it was a planet.  astronomers finally stopped classifying them as planets after they found several other bodies with similar orbits, and no one thinks ceres, pallas, juno, and vesta are planets today.\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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Pluto (planet), ninth planet from the Sun and outermost known member of the solar system. Pluto was discovered as the result of a telescopic search inaugurated in 1905 by the American astronomer Percival Lowell, who conjectured the existence of a distant planet beyond Neptune as the cause of slight perturbations (see Orbit) in the motions of Uranus. Continued by members of the Lowell Observatory staff, the search ended successfully in 1930, when the American astronomer Clyde William Tombaugh found Pluto near the position Lowell had predicted. The new planet’s mass, however, seemed insufficient to account for the perturbations of Neptune, and the search for a possible tenth planet continues.\n\nPluto revolves about the Sun once in 247.7 years at an average distance of 5.9 billion km (3.67 billion mi). The orbit is so eccentric that at certain points along its path Pluto is closer to the Sun than is Neptune. No possibility of collision exists, however, because Pluto’s orbit is inclined by more than 17.2° to the plane of the ecliptic and never actually crosses Neptune’s path.\n\nVisible only through large telescopes, Pluto is seen to have a yellowish colour. For many years very little was known about the planet, but in 1978 astronomers discovered a relatively large moon orbiting Pluto at a distance of only about 19,000 km (12,000 mi) and named it Charon. The orbits of Pluto and Charon caused them to pass repeatedly in front of one another from 1985 to 1990, enabling astronomers to determine their sizes fairly accurately. Pluto is 2,284 km (1,420 mi) in diameter, and Charon is 1,192 km (740 mi) in diameter, making them even more like a double-planet system than are the Earth and its moon. Pluto was also found to have a thin atmosphere, probably of methane, exerting a pressure on the planet’s surface that is about 100,000 times weaker than the Earth’s atmospheric pressure at sea level. The atmosphere appears to condense and form polar caps during Pluto’s long winter. The first map of Pluto’s surface was made by the Hubble Space Telescope. It shows vague light and dark regions of unknown origin.\n\nWith a density about twice that of water, Pluto is apparently made of much rockier material than are the other planets of the outer solar system. This may be the result of the kind of cold-temperature/low-pressure chemical combinations that took place during the formation of the planet. Some astronomers have suggested that Pluto may be a former satellite of Neptune, knocked into a separate orbit during the early days of the solar system. Charon would then be an accumulation of the lighter materials resulting from the collision.
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Nice links. I would think that Pluto is still a planet. Its mean radius relative to earth's radius is approximately 0.46. So the diameter at equator might be some 3600 miles. By comparison, a satellite like Nereid, which orbits the planet Neptune, is no more than 200 miles in diameter. At its size Pluto must be a planet.\nI am not sure about Sedna. If we think about the 10-th planet, or the "X" planet, it was thought to be three times as massive as Saturn, and nearly six billion miles from the earth. It looks to me that Sedna might not be our 10-th planet. But then again, perhaps we just have to wait and see.
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As far as planets go, Mercury.  All the time.  No planet ever gets closer.  I'm not quite sure what these folks are trying to pull with "pluto" but the closest it ever gets to the sun is still over 26 times farther away than the earth's orbit.\n\nComets and asteroids can get really close to the sun, in fact there is a class of comets that we call "sungrazers" they actually fall into the sun and never return.
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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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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.