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Pluto

Pluto is 5,913,520,000 km from the sun. Pluto is 2,274 km in diameter and 1.27e22 kg in mass.

Pluto's temperature is probably between -228 to -238C. It's name Pluto comes from Greek Mythology Pluto is the god of the underworld.

Pluto's surface is probably a mixture of 70% rock and 30% water ice. The bright areas are with ices of nitrogen with smaller amounts of solid methane and carbon monoxide.

Pluto also has some special features such as it has an unusual orbit. Pluto is one of the only remaining members of a class of similar objects in space, the rest were ejected into the Oort Cloud. Pluto only has one satellite Charon.

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