Pluto’s Founder      
     A young astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh found something through a telescope. It looked like a little speck in space. It was Pluto. 

Pluto’s Moon
    Pluto has a moon named Charon, which is almost as big as Pluto, and also is almost too big to call a moon. If you could see Charon and Pluto together you would think that there are two planets.

    In the 1990’s Pluto’s status of a planet was questioned.  Small objects were discovered between Neptune and Pluto. However, none of these objects is nearly as large as Pluto.

    Pluto is only five hundredth of Earth’s mass.  It is so small that many astronomers want to call it Transneptunian.

Fast Facts

• Pluto is the planet farthest from the Sun.

• The temperature of Pluto is only about 37 degrees Kelvin, that’s more than 400 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
   
• Pluto is a cold place where the Sun is only a distant star.
   
• The planet Pluto turned out to be two orbiting bodies, both Pluto and Charon.
   
• Pluto is the last stop in the solar system.