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!Solar/Describe/Pluto
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| Tape/disk: | Home » Archimedes archive » Zipped Apps » Orrery |
| Filename: | !Solar/Describe/Pluto |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 025E bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
Pluto is usually the furthest planet from the Sun, but due to its highly elliptical orbit, it is sometimes closer than the planet Neptune. It is easily the smallest planet, only half the size of Mercury. It is also a rocky planet, unlike it nearest neighbours and due to its extreme distance from the Sun, the surface temperature is only -230 degrees C. Pluto has one known satellite, Charon, which with a diameter of 1,199km is nearly half the size of Pluto. Little else is known about Pluto, as it currently remains the only planet in the solar system, not visited by spacecraft from Earth.
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