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Pluto completes the second orbit of the Sun since its discovery. 2435 March 3 At 19:11 UTC, Venus will occult Saturn. [42] 2442 October 23 At 09:43 UTC, Venus will occult Jupiter. [42] 2456 Triple conjunction Mars–Jupiter. 2475 Pluto's orbit brings it closer to the Sun than Neptune for the third time since its discovery. 2478 August 29
Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It is the largest known trans-Neptunian object by volume by a small margin, but is less massive than Eris.
Pluto, with its heart-shaped glacier, as captured by the New Horizons spacecraft Credit - JPL/NASA. P luto will mark a birthday of sorts on March 23, 2178. No one is likely to be there to ...
The cancellation of Pluto Kuiper Express angered some of the space-exploration scientific community, which led to groups, such as The Planetary Society, lobbying NASA for either a reboot of the Pluto Kuiper Express or a restart of a mission to Pluto. Internal divisions within NASA, including its Scientific Advisory Council, also voiced support ...
A great or full alignment includes all planets and occasionally Pluto. When will June's 'parade of planets' take place? The parade of planets starts on the morning of June 3.
The four-planet lineup that began in January will conclude by mid-to-late February, as Saturn sinks increasingly lower in the sky each night after sunset, according to NASA.
Some members of the New Horizons team, including Alan Stern, disagree with the IAU definition and still describe Pluto as the ninth planet. [38] Pluto's satellites Nix and Hydra also have a connection with the spacecraft: the first letters of their names (N and H) are the initials of New Horizons.
It is about half the diameter and an eighth the mass of Pluto, a dwarf planet that resides in a frigid region of the outer Solar System called the Kuiper Belt, beyond the most distant planet Neptune.