Dwarf Planet
Pluto
Pluto is currently about 5,193,927,901 kilometres from Earth, or 34.72 astronomical units, which puts a one-way radio signal 4.8 hours out. It is 35.59 astronomical units from the Sun.
The famous dwarf planet of the Kuiper Belt, on a tilted, eccentric orbit far from the Sun. A frozen world of nitrogen ice, mountains, and a heart-shaped plain.
Visited once, by New Horizons in July 2015. The map here is the real New Horizons global mosaic.
Right now
- Distance from Earth
- 5,193,927,901 km (34.72 AU)
- Distance from the Sun
- 5,324,226,309 km (35.59 AU)
- One-way signal time
- 4.8 hours
The body
- Mean radius
- 1,188 km
- Day
- 6.4 Earth days
- Year
- 248 years
- Moons
- 5