Pluto was named after the Roman God of the Underworld.It was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff AZ. Pluto is 3.6 billion miles away from the sun. It's diameter is 1,800 miles, it is smaller than the moon. It takes pluto 247.7 years to go around the sun. Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit and is sometimes the 8th planet. Pluto has 1 moon.
Charon is pluto's only moon. It's diameter is 730 miles. Charon is 12,000 miles from pluto. It takes 6.4 days to go around the sun.
