Pluton

Key facts

Planet.name

Pluto

Planet.minorplanet

yes

Planet.symbol

24px|♇|class=skin-invert or 24px|⯓|class=skin-invert

Planet.image

Pluto in True Color - High-Res.png

Planet.caption

Pluto in true color as imaged by the New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015.

Planet.background

Lavender

Planet.discoverer

Clyde W. Tombaugh

Planet.discovered

February 18, 1930

Planet.discovery_site

Lowell Observatory

Planet.mpc_name

(134340) Pluto

Planet.named_after

Pluto

Planet.epoch

J2000

Planet.earliest_precovery_date

August 20, 1909

Planet.synodic_period

366.73 days

Planet.avg_speed

4.743 km/s

Planet.satellites

5

Planet.dimensions

(observations consistent with a sphere, predicted deviations too small to be observed)

Planet.escape_velocity

 km/s

via Wikipedia infobox

• Finding Pluto: An Analytics-Based Approach to Safety Data Ecosystems.ReviewSafety and health at work · 2021Barker TTDOI: 10.1016/j.shaw.2020.09.010
• Prebiotic Chemistry of Pluto.Astrobiology · 2019Cruikshank DP, Materese CK, Pendleton YJ et al.DOI: 10.1089/ast.2018.1927
• To pluto.Nature · 2015DOI: 10.1038/522006b
• Neptune, the Next Pluto?-Durvalumab and Tremelimumab Face Challenges in Entering the NSCLC Space.Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer · 2023Ahn JY, Nagasaka MDOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2022.11.004
• The crystallography of Pluto.IUCrJ · 2020Salzmann CG, Rosu-Finsen ADOI: 10.1107/S205225252001163X
• Pluto story.Nature · 2000Silverberg RDOI: 10.1038/35000306
• Broad-spectrum antibiotics disrupt homeostatic efferocytosis.Nature metabolism · 2024Saavedra PHV, Trzeciak AJ, Lipshutz A et al.DOI: 10.1038/s42255-024-01107-7
• Large-scale cryovolcanic resurfacing on Pluto.Nature communications · 2022Singer KN, White OL, Schmitt B et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29056-3

via PubMed

Wikidata facts

Has part

atmosphere of Pluto

Named after

Pluto

Highest point

Tenzing Montes

Location

outer Solar System

Parent body

Sun

Minor-planet group

trans-Neptunian object

Diameter

2376

Radius

1185

Mass

13.05

Orbital period

90553.02

Image

Pluto in True Color - High-Res.jpg

Said to be same as

Yuggoth

via Wikidata · CC0