What is the origin name of pluto?

what is plutos distance from the sun, and earth?


what is its diameter?


What are the the number of moons in pluto, the name of the moons and the size of the moons?

What is the origin name of pluto?
Pluto is named for the Roman god of the underworld. Venetia Burney, an 11-year-old girl from Oxford, England, suggested the name. Imagine if astronomers had listened to the New York Times. Right now you'd be reading about the planet Minerva!





Pluto: Facts %26amp; Figures





Discovered By Clyde Tombaugh





Date of Discovery


1930





Average Distance from the Sun


Metric: 5,906,380,000 km


English: 3,670,050,000 miles


Scientific Notation: 5.90638 x 109 km (39.482 A.U.)


By Comparison: 39.482 x Earth





Perihelion (closest)


Metric: 4,436,820,000 km


English: 2,756,902,000 miles


Scientific Notation: 4.43682 x 109 km (29.658 A.U.)


By Comparison: 30.171 x Earth





Aphelion (farthest)


Metric: 7,375,930,000 km


English: 4,583,190,000 miles


Scientific Notation: 7.37593 x 109 km (49.305 A.U.)


By Comparison: 48.481 x Earth





Equatorial Radius


Metric: 1,151 km


English: 715 miles


Scientific Notation: 1.151 x 103 km


By Comparison: 0.180 x Earth








Equatorial Circumference


Metric: 7,232 km


English: 4,494 miles


Scientific Notation: 7.232 x 103 km





Volume


Metric: 6,390,000,000 km3


English: 1,530,000,000 mi3


Scientific Notation: 6.39 x 109 km3


By Comparison: 0.0059 x Earth





Mass


Metric: 13,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg


Scientific Notation: 1.3 x 1022 kg


By Comparison: 0.0022 x Earth





Density


Metric: 2 g/cm3


By Comparison: ~ 0.4 x Earth





Surface Area


Metric: 16,650,000 km2


English: 6,430,000 square miles


Scientific Notation: 1.665 x 107 km2


By Comparison: 0.033 x Earth





Equatorial Surface Gravity


Metric: 0.81 m/s2


English: 2.7 ft/s2


By Comparison: If you weigh 100 pounds on Earth, you would weigh 8 pounds on Pluto.





Escape Velocity


Metric: 4,570 km/h


English: 2,840 mph


Scientific Notation: 1,270 m/s


By Comparison: Escape velocity of Earth is 25,022 mph.





Sidereal Rotation Period (Length of Day)


-6.387 Earth days (retrograde)


-153.3 hours (retrograde)


By Comparison: One Earth day is 24 hours.





Sidereal Orbit Period (Length of Year)


247.92 Earth years


90,553 Earth days





Mean Orbit Velocity


Metric: 17,096 km/h


English: 10,623 mph


Scientific Notation: 4,749.0 m/s


By Comparison: 0.425 x Earth





Orbital Eccentricity


0.2488


By Comparison: 14.9 x Earth








Orbital Inclination to Ecliptic


17.14 degrees





Equatorial Inclination to Orbit


119.61 degrees


By Comparison: 5.10 x Earth





Orbital Circumference


Metric: 32,820,000,000 km


English: 20,390,000,000 miles


Scientific Notation: 3.282 x 1010 km


By Comparison: 35.505 x Earth





Minimum/Maximum Surface Temperature


Metric: -233/-223 掳C


English: -387/-369 掳F


Scientific Notation: 40/50 K





Atmospheric Constituents


By Comparison: Earth's atmosphere consists mostly of N2 and O2.





Moons :


1. Charon


http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/comp...





2. Hydra


3. Nix





More info here :





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Pl...





Nothing about rings





If you want the distance from the Earth it varies. Both bodies are in eliptical orbits so it changes.





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