8 Interesting Facts About Pluto

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02 Jan 2026

Pluto takes 248 years to go around the Sun once, meaning it will celebrate New Year on March 23, 2178.


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Venetia Burney, 11, of Oxford, England, named Pluto in 1930 after the Roman god of the underworld.


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One day on Pluto takes about 153 hours, which is about 6.4 Earth days. 


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Pluto is only about 1,400 miles wide. At that size, Pluto is smaller than India which is about 1,822 miles from Gujarat to Arunachal Pradesh.


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On average, Pluto's temperature is -387°F (-232°C), making it too cold to sustain life.


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Pluto's tallest mountains are 6,500 to 9,800 feet in height. They are big blocks of water ice, with a coating of methane in some instances.


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Pluto has 5 known moons: Charon, Nix, Hydra, Kerberos, and Styx. Charon is the largest and half the size of Pluto.


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Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union because other objects might cross its orbit.


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