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DWARF PLANET
Pluto orbits beyond the orbit of
Neptune (usually). It is much smaller
than any of the official planets and
now classified as a "dwarf planet".
Pluto is smaller than seven of the
solar system's moons (the Moon, Io,
Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Titan
and Triton).
Juan Miguel Barragan
• There are 5 officially recognized dwarf
planets in our solar system, they are Ceres,
Pluto, Haumea, Makemake and Eris..
Dwarf planet symbols
 the symbols for the planets, Moon, and Sun
(along with the symbols for the zodiac
constellations) were developed for use in
both astronomy and astrology. The symbol
for Pluto is a monogram made up of the P
and L in Pluto and also the initials of the
astronomer, Percival Lowell, who predicted
its discovery.
Dwarf planet symbols
Solar System
 Pluto’s distance from the Sun is 5.9 billion km
– the exact number is 5,906,376,272 km.
 Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter,
Saturn,Uranus, Neptune. Dwarf planets: Pluto,
Eris,Makemake,Haumea,ceres.
 Pluto’s orbit period is 6.387 days.
Moons
 Pluto has 5 moons.
 Pluto's five moons are
called;Stix,Charon,Kerberos,Hydrax.
Planet appearance
 Pluto's surface looks grayish and dark.
 Pluto is primarily made of ice and rock
 Pluto's appearance is very icy and
rocky. The color of Pluto is a brownish
yellow color. The surface is covered with
ice and has traces of methane
and carbon monoxide ice on it.
Rings
 The idea suggests that other Kuiper Belt
Objects might also harbor multiple satellites
and raises the possibility that Pluto is
encircled by rings fashioned from debris
ejected from the surface of the tiny moons.
Exploration
 The new horizon was launched on,
Jan,19,2006
 When NASA's New Horizons sped
past Pluto on July 14, 2015, it took
the best-ever pictures of the rocky
world’s surface, giving us new
insight into its geology, composition
and atmosphere.
Interesting Facts
Pluto Facts. Pluto is the second closest dwarf
planet to the Sun and from 1930 when it was
discovered up until 2006, it was also considered the
ninth planet of the solar system. It is also the
second largest dwarf planet, with Eris being the
most massive known dwarf planet. Pluto is
named after the Greek god of the
underworld: This is a later name for the more well
known Hades and was proposed by Venetia Burney
an eleven year old schoolgirl from Oxford, England.
Pluto
 Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered
our solar system's ninth planet. But after the
discovery of similar intriguing worlds deeper in
the distant Kuiper Belt, icy Pluto was reclassified
as a dwarf planet.
Makemake
 While similar to planets in many ways, dwarf
planets share their orbits around the sun with
other objects such as asteroids or comets.
Eris
 Eris (minor-planet designation 136199 Eris) is
the most massive and second-largest dwarf
planet [g]known in the Solar System. It is also
the ninth-most-massive known body directly
orbiting the Sun, [g] and the largest known
body in the Solar System not visited by a
spacecraft.
Haumea
 Haumea, minor-planet designation 136108
Haumea, is a dwarf planet located beyond
Neptune's orbit. Haumea is the third
closest dwarf planet to the sun and is located
beyond the orbit of neptune. It has about 1/3
the mass of pluto and was discovered by 2004
by a team from Caltech.
Ceres
 Ceres is a dwarf planet, the only one located
in the inner reaches of the solar system; the
rest lie at the outer edges, in the Kuiper Belt.
While it is the smallest of the known dwarf
planets, it is the largest object in the asteroid
belt.
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