C'mon now, you didn't really expect a large photo-album
of Pluto, did you? Neither man nor machine has ever visited the distant
planet, although a future mission is planned. Pluto is smaller than
Earth's own moon, and it's moon Charon is smaller still. It's orbit
is so eccentric that it is sometimes closer to the sun than Neptune, as
it is now until February 1999. Because of these unusual features,
some astronomers think of Pluto, not as a planet, but as another small
satellite among the Kuiper Belt.
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Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto