Approximately 7 times larger is the orbit of pluto than the orbit of the moon about Earth.
What is the orbit of Pluto?
- In the Kuiper belt, a ring of worlds beyond Neptune's orbit, Pluto is a dwarf planet. When it was named the ninth planet from the Sun in 1930, it was the first object found in the Kuiper belt.
- Orbital period of 248 years.
- Orbit in a different plane and with a higher degree of ellipticism than planets.
- Crosses the paths of Neptune's three largest moons, Charon (over half the diameter of Pluto)
- Based on Pluto's orbital period, the distance to it is approximately 40 AU.
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