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Pluto: Quick Stats
Planet from Sun: Alternates with Neptune as the ninth planet
Diameter: 2274 km
Mythology: Pluto (Roman god), Hades (Greek god). God of the Underworld (known as Hades)
Nicknames:
Atmosphere: Little information. Most likely nitrogen and carbon monoxide and methane.
Moons: Charon
Notable Feature: Many consider Pluto too small to be a planet but rather prefer to call it an asteroid or the largest of Kuipter Belt's objects.
Symbol: Sign is the astronomer who discovered pluto, Percival Lowell's initials, sign
was also used to mean lamps
Interesting Fact(s): Asscoiasted with Friday, the word for Friday in
French and Latin is Vendredi, in Itailan it is Venerd́, in Spanish
it is Viernes
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