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THE SOLAR SYSTEM WEB QUEST
* ninth planet
from the sun * 3 billion, 666
million miles from the sun * 1 moon named
Charon Pluto is the
smallest planet. It is smaller than Earth's moon.
It is also the coldest spot in the solar system.
Pluto is made of rock, not like the other gas
planets. Scientists think that this planet used to
be a moon of Neptune, but now it travels around the
sun. Pluto's orbit
travels around the sun in a different path than the
other planets. A year on Pluto
is 247 Earth-years long. One day is 6 Earth-days
long.
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