Tuesday 12 March 2013

pluto planet

Basic concept of pluto.
                                                                                                                                                         PLUTO :  On the basic of the law definition of planet given by the IAU, the world's top institution on space science research, leading astronomers participating in IAU' meet at prague on august 24, 2006, declared that pluto would no longer remain a planet .PLuto is the second largest know dwarf planet in the solar system. Weeks after it was demoted to a subplanetar status, pluto was given a new name to reflect its new status as a dwarf planet in semtember 2006.The former 9th planet was assigned the asteroid number 134340 by the minor planet centre, the official organisation responsible for collecting data about asteroids and comets in our solar system.  pluto's companion satellites, charon, nix and hydra are considered part of the same system and will not be assigned separate asteroid numbers. Instead, they will now be called 134340 1,11,111 respectively. Before loosing its planetary status on 24th august, 2006, pluto was the outermost planet of the solar system.

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