Pluto

Texts and descriptions are fine and dandy, but to see planet Pluto for what it is is another thing altogether.  Enjoy these pictures of Pluto.      

Mass: 1.29 x 1022 Diameter (km): 2300 Mean density (kg/m3): 2030 Escape velocity (m/s): 1100 Average distance from Sun: 39.48 AU (5,906,376,200 km) Rotation period (length of day in Earth days): 6.39 (retrograde) Revolution period (length of year in Earth years): 247.92 Obliquity (tilt of axis degrees): 122.5 Orbit inclination (degrees): 17.15 Orbit eccentricity (deviation

1. As of 2006, Pluto is not longer considered a planet, but rather designated as a “dwarf planet,” meaning that it is a planetary-mass object being neither a planet nor a satellite. Pluto was declassified as a planet by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). 2. Pluto is the smallest dwarf planet in the Solar System,