Pronunciation of pluto

Pronunciation of the English word pluto.

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Pronounce pluto in English


pluto in a sentence

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1. Charon is considered to be a satellite of the (dwarf) planet Pluto. However, because its diameter is more than half as large as that of Pluto itself, it can be considered an equal partner; and Pluto and Charon can be considered a double planet.
2. Pluto has a very unusual orbit. Once every 248 Earth years, Pluto swings inside the orbit of Neptune. It stays there for twenty years. During those twenty years, Pluto is closer to the Sun than Neptune.
3. Pluto has more in common with Triton, Neptune's largest moon, than it does with any of the eight planets in our solar system. Pluto is actually smaller than Triton.
4. NASA's New Horizons mission, for example, was the first spacecraft to visit Pluto in the outer solar system. The spacecraft’s images of Pluto show a surprisingly complex world with giant ice mountains that had never been seen before.
5. When I was your age, Pluto was a planet.
6. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union decided to create a new category for solar system objects called "dwarf planets", and Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet.
7. Pioneer 10 crossed Pluto's orbit in 1983.
8. The Solar System has only eight planets now as Pluto, which was the ninth, has been reclassified as a dwarf planet.
9. Little is known about Pluto.
10. Centuries later, there were "lighthouse" outposts as far as Pluto and its moon Charon.

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