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Pluto
Dwarf planet · Largest dwarf planet in the Solar System
About Pluto
On 2026-01-01, the date the map shows, Pluto was 35.4 AU from the Sun; sunlight takes 4.91 hours to reach it.
It goes round the Sun once every 249.4 years, at an average distance of 39.619 AU.
It is about 2,377 km across.
The map lists it as a dwarf planet and shows it in the Solar System part of the map, drawn on the plane of Earth’s orbit (the ecliptic).
Key numbers
| Semi-major axis | 39.619 AU |
|---|---|
| Orbital period | 249.4 years |
| Eccentricity | 0.2475 |
| Inclination | 17.03° |
| Mass | 1.3 × 10²² kg |
| Radius | 1,188.3 km |
| Day length | 153.3 h |
| Mean temperature | −225 °C |
| Distance from the Sun | 35.4 AU |
Where it is
Its place in the universe, from the inside out: Solar System › Orion–Cygnus Arm (Local Arm) › Milky Way › Local Group › Virgo Supercluster › Laniakea Supercluster › Observable universe.
Zoom out to see it in context: Neptune and the Kuiper belt, a view about 110 AU across.
From Wikipedia
Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It is the largest known trans-Neptunian object by volume by a small margin, but is less massive than Eris.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Pluto, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.