Transcript Angel McClain 10 Cold Facts For Pluto 1. Pluto was discovered in 1930. 2. Pluto was named for the Roman god of the underworld.

Angel McClain
10 Cold Facts For Pluto
1.
Pluto was discovered in 1930.
2.
Pluto was named for the Roman god of the underworld. Venetia Burney, an 11 year old girl from
England, originally suggested the name Pluto.
3.
In 1930 an astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh
found Pluto through a telescope.
4.
Pluto is the smallest planet in the Solar System.
5.
Pluto’s atmosphere is made mostly of nitrogen,
which is frozen into ice most of the time.
10 Cold Facts For Pluto
6.
Pluto is the farthest planet away from the Sun.
7.
Pluto has 1 moon named Charon.
8.
Pluto is 3,700,000,000 miles from the Sun.
9.
The average temperature on Pluto is 240 degrees
below zero.
10. The diameter across Pluto’s equator is 1,430 miles.
Pretty cold all year long
Left farthest from the Sun
Under frozen nitrogen
Tombaugh found Pluto
Only guesses to what Pluto is made of.
Pluto front & back
Pluto’s Symbol