Pluto
Pluto ♇
Pluto is located in the Kuiper Belt, a region filled with icy bodies past Neptune. Discovered in 1930, it was named by an 11-year-old girl after the Roman god of the underworld. It was initially classified as a planet until 2006, when similar celestial bodies in the Kuiper Belt were discovered. It was then reclassified as a dwarf planet. It is 3.70 billion miles (39.53 Astronomical Units) from the Sun. A day on Pluto takes 153 hours, about six Earth days, while one year takes about 248 Earth years. Pluto is only 1,400 miles wide, about 2/3 the size of Earth's moon or half the width of the United States. Due to its elliptical orbit, Pluto is sometimes closer to the Sun than Neptune is. As it was a planet in 1996 when the Foster Planet Walk was founded, it remains on the walk today despite its new classification.
(NASA)
Click on the dwarf planet to see if it's visible tonight!
Find it next to Hruby Hall! (Hint: good things come in trees)
