2007-10-11 16:34:37 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The answer to your question is no, it is not gone from the solar system. It's where it always was. It now belongs to a different classification of objects than planets.
2007-10-11 17:24:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You are right about that, and to answer this and other questions about this icy planet, NASA launched the New Horizons spacecraft in Jan 2006. It is scheduled to travel the 3 billion miles to Pluto and arrive in the year 2015. Interestingly, the Hubble Space Telescope recently discovered two new moons around Pluto, Hydra and Hyx. Along with Charon it makes now 3 moons circling Pluto. The astronomers that made the discovery hypothesized that this 3 moons originated in a collision between Pluto and another object of the kuiper Belt, similar to the Earth-Moon System. Pluto is the largest object in the Kuiper Belt, which is also a source of comets. There are thousands of small planets in that Belt, Pluto is the largest. Pluto's dance around the sun takes 248 years, and the temperature there is minus 387 degrees Farenheit. That has got to be a cold winter!!
2016-04-08 04:26:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Pluto is really gone from our solar system. Pluto is more of like an asteroid to be classified as a planet. It is too small to be one.
2007-10-11 16:40:00 · answer #3 · answered by 2smiley4 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Pluto got really tired of being laughed at and called names by all the bigger planets so it decided that it didn't want to be in that group anyway. Pluto went off and found a bunch of other small planets and they all decided to form their own gang know by all as Distant Dwarves society. Now all the big planets are jealous and feeling left out since there are far more members in the new club than the old one. Mercury has filed suit for discrimination because it thinks it is plenty small enough to join the club.
2007-10-11 17:23:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Its not gone from our solar system, its just not a planet anymore. It has been found to belong to a group of icy rocks that are right outside the accepted planets.
2007-10-11 16:38:32 · answer #5 · answered by Zach 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Its not "gone" from our solar system its still where its always been but it is no longer considered a planet. Astronomers look at it as a "dwarf" planet because it is soo small.
2007-10-11 17:33:48 · answer #6 · answered by cb 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, the object we call Pluto is still out there in its orbit.
It has been downgraded from "Planet" to "Dwarf Planet" by the International Astronomical Union.
2007-10-12 06:49:43 · answer #7 · answered by Dave_Stark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't you update yourself with latest news. of course Pluto is out of the solar system
2007-10-11 21:46:44 · answer #8 · answered by Krrish 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No. Pluto is considered a planet no more because a bunch of astnomoners dcided it was not.
2007-10-11 16:40:15 · answer #9 · answered by eric l 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
unfortunately yes but you sound sad.
don't be sad.
i forgot to tell that it is just not a planet anymore, but it is still there in solar system
2007-10-11 16:37:35 · answer #10 · answered by SIMONE 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋