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Pluto is the farthest known Planet of our solar
system. Its diameter is not jet known exactly it might be about 2200 km. Its
mass is estimated on 1022 kg or 0,0026 earth masses, its density is
probably around 2 g/cm3. The distance of the planet to the sun varies between
4425*10^6 and 7375*10^6 km. The average distance is about 5966*10^6 km.
Sometimes it comes closer to the Sun than Neptune. The eccentricity of the orbit is with
0.25 very large, as well as the orbit angle against the ecliptic with 17° 9. A
revolution of the Pluto lasts 6.39 earth days, the revolution time around the sun 247.7
earth days. Pluto has a moon named Charon, witch has been investigated only a little up to
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