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How Is Pluto Different From Other Planets
Pluto is different from the other planets because it is a dwarf planet and it’s far away from the other planets and the sun so that means it is also the coldest plant which is -400 degrees F .and as it states on the Nasa website that there are no known rings around Pluto’s atmosphere and if Pluto was a planet it’s would be the smallest plant In the solar system .the farthest away from the sun 248 year is going to delay.

Compared to the pattern of the planets is your terrestrial inner planets which is the solid surface planets Mercury ,Venus ,Earth ,and mars then the outer planets which are the gas giants Jupiter ,Saturn , Uranus , and Neptune .The person who discovered that Pluto was a dwarf planet was a man named Clyde Tombaugh he basically stated that” all the planets orbit the sun it’s just that dwarf planets are smaller than the other regular planets.
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But I honestly think that it was bad that they said that Pluto couldn’t be a planet anymore because it was too small and far away from t6he planet and the sun. At first I thought that Pluto was a gas giant but by the pictures that I saw from Nasa it looks like a rocky planet .that is what I thought and learned about Pluto

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