what is the surface gravity of the planet PLUTO?
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Gravity is only 8% of gravity on earth. So, if you weighed 150 pounds on earth, you'd weigh only 12 pounds on Pluto.
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Yes.  There is a large object (probably around 2000 kilometers in diameter) orbiting the Sun at a distance greater than Pluto's average distance from the Sun.  \n\nThe exact size of the object is unknown, and there is no official definition of "planet", so there is still some debate (as of February 2006) over whether this object should be considered a small planet or should be categorized as something else (such as a comet).
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Depends on how long ago you were in school -- Pluto is so far away that for many years we thought it was larger than it has turned out to, in fact, be.\n\nThe most recent value I have for the diameter of the two planets is:\nMercury = 4879.4 km\nPluto = 2302 km\n\nThen, of course, there's the debate about whether or not Pluto is even truly a planet . . .
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Neither. It's the mass of the planet itself. Everything that has mass projects a gravitational field. The more massive an object is, the bigger its gravitational "pull". This is why objects like the Sun can support several large planets, while Pluto (which has a moon about a third the size of it) gets pulled around by its moon.
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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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The International Astronomical Union decided that Pluto was no longer a planet.  Instead, they decided to classify it as a "dwarf planet".\n\nSee the details below.\n\nRESOLUTION 5A\nThe IAU therefore resolves that "planets" and other bodies in our Solar System, except satellites, be defined into three distinct categories in the following way:\n\n(1) A "planet" [footnote 1] is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.\n\n(2) A "dwarf planet" is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape [footnote 2] , (c) has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and (d) is not a satellite.\n\n(3) All other objects [footnote 3] except satellites orbiting the Sun shall be referred to collectively as "Small Solar-System Bodies".\n\n\nFootnote 1: The eight "planets" are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.\n\nFootnote 2: An IAU process will be established to assign borderline objects into either dwarf planet and other categories.\n\nFootnote 3: These currently include most of the Solar System asteroids, most Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), comets, and other small bodies.\n\nRESOLUTION 6A\nThe IAU further resolves:\n\nPluto is a "dwarf planet" by the above definition and is recognized as the prototype of a new category of trans-Neptunian objects.
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Possibly, as scientists have yet to make up their mind. One particular object, originally found in 2003 but confirmed two years later by Mike Brown (Caltech), David Rabinowitz (Yale University), and Chad Trujillo (Gemini Observatory), has renewed the old debate about what constitutes a planet since it is at least 5% larger than Pluto with an estimated diameter of 2400 km . It currently has no name, but has been given the provisional designation 2003 UB313, and has been nicknamed "Xena" by its discoverers, after the television character. It has many similarities with Pluto: its orbit is highly eccentric, with a perihelion of 38.2 AU (roughly Pluto's distance from the Sun) and an aphelion of 97.6 AU, and is steeply inclined to the ecliptic plane, at 44 degrees, more so than any known object in the solar system except the newly-discovered object 2004 XR190. Like Pluto, it is believed to consist mainly of rock and ice, and has a moon . Whether it and the largest Kuiper belt objects should be considered planets or whether instead Pluto should be reclassified as a minor planet has not yet been resolved.
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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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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 has a diameter of 2306 ± 20 km. Mercury's diameter is 4879.4 km. Also, Mars' diameter is 6,804.9 km. So, Mercury is the planet closest in size to Pluto, judging by diameter.
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Pluto is the farthest planet from the sun. Its average distance from the sun is 3,670,050,000 miles (5,906,380,000 kilometers).
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All orbits are elliptical (note that circles are subsets of ellipses.)  Exactly how Pluto go to be where it is (and where also includes its coordinates in a velocity space, in addition to xyz space) is not known.  One interesting thing about it is that it is in a resonance with Neptunes orbit, so that whenever it is close to Neptunes orbit, Neptune is on the other side of the sun. Neptune's mass can't perturb Pluto.  In other words, Pluto is in a special orbit that is stable. \n\nI doubt it had its origin as a moon of Neptune, or else it likely would have been flung into a very radical orbit by an encouter with that planet. More likely it is one of MANY objects that found itself orbiting in similar orbits; all the others have long ago been removed from the picture by Neptune encounters.
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It is not a planet.  \n\nIt is still classified as a trans-Neptunian object (TNO), even though it appears to be larger than Pluto.  In fact, some people wonder if Pluto is large enough to be considered a planet, but it's unlikely anybody will "downgrade" it.   I heard a lecturer at Berkeley say that Pluto should really be classified as a 'double-planet' with its moon Charon, which is almost half its size.\n\nIn September of this year (2006) the International Astronomical Union (IAU) will come up with a re-definition of how big something has to be to be called a "planet".  E.g. does it have to be large enough to support an atmosphere.  At that time UB313 may become a planet (and get a cool Greek name).
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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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Both the Earth and Pluto orbit around the sun at different rates so their relative positions are constantly changing.  In addition, Pluto has an extremely eccentric orbit that at some times brings it closer to the sun than Neptune.  Using their orbital extremes and considering their positions around the sun, these are the closest and furthest distances between Earth and Pluto.\n\nClosest (Earth at furthest point from sun, Pluto at closest, both on same side of sun) - 4,284,726,912 kilometers (2,662,405,870 miles)\nFurthest(Earth at furthest point from sun, Pluto at furthest, both on opposite sides of sun) - 7,223,830,230 km (4,488,680,000 miles)
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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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Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ. (Not far from where I live.) It was named after the mythological Roman deity believed to rule the underworld. The 1st 2 letters of its name, "PL", are also the initials of astronomer Percival Lowell.\nFor many years, it was considered the 9th planet in our solar system, but recently lost that status. Personally, I think it's a shame. I'll always think of it as a planet.\nHere's a couple of links you can follow to learn more.