why does pluto move in a weird way?
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Because it is so very "Far-Out" in Our Solar System, it's Solar Orbit is not only Influenced by Our Sun, but Possibly Unknown External Sources of Gravitational Pull as well.
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The tenth planet is like really great, thanks for asking.  He spins around and around and makes one revolution around the sun about once every several thousand thousand years.  Therefore you might call this tenth planet (he doesn't mind) a chunk of ice, and not really planet-like at all.  But wait, you're saying, Pluto is a chunk of ice and also a planet!  Well, Pluto actually (he's telling me now) doesn't even consider himself a planet, as he's really just a large ice-chunk in the Kuiper Belt.  The tenth planet (we'll call him "Frank", that's what he prefers) is a little peeved that Pluto gets a thousand-brother belt to wear and all he's got is the occasional through-comet.  We can't help you, Frank, I'm sorry.  We're like, a billion miles away.
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what? further than the earth in relation to the sun, would be mars. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and one we cant quite see yet.\nI'm not sure i understand your ?, but i hope this helps. sometime pluto comes closer than neptune, because of the orbits. click on this link, then scole down the page it brings you to.\nhttp://www.sciencemonster.com/planets.html
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An accurate answer will depend entirely upon the positions of Earth and Pluto at the time of travel.  We can, however, find the boundary solutions easily enough.\n\nEarth is at 1AU (Astronomical Unit) distance from the sun.  This distance varies, but not significantly at light speed so let's ignore it for the sake of simplicity.  Pluto, on the other hand, various by a huge amount.  It approaches to within 29.7AU at perihelion and recedes as far as 49.5AU at aphelion.  An added complication is that Pluto's orbit is a full 17 degrees off the ecliptic plane, but again let us ignore this in the interest of simplicity.\n\nSo the very closest that Earth and Pluto may approach is about 28.7AU, and the furthest can be 50.5AU.  To traverse these distances at light speed would require 4.0 hours and 7.0 hours, respectively.\n\nAs an added little note, remember that at relativistic speeds, time in the frame of motion approaches zero at the speed of light.  So, the times above would be those experienced by a stationary observer.  For the traveller, if the speed of light were actually possible to achieve, the trip would be instantaneous.
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Both the Earth and Pluto orbit around the sun at different rates so their relative positions are constantly changing.  In addition, Pluto has an extremely eccentric orbit that at some times brings it closer to the sun than Neptune.  Using their orbital extremes and considering their positions around the sun, these are the closest and furthest distances between Earth and Pluto.\n\nClosest (Earth at furthest point from sun, Pluto at closest, both on same side of sun) - 4,284,726,912 kilometers (2,662,405,870 miles)\nFurthest(Earth at furthest point from sun, Pluto at furthest, both on opposite sides of sun) - 7,223,830,230 km (4,488,680,000 miles)
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The first spacecraft to visit the planet Pluto lifted off from Earth in January of 2006 and is expected to reach Pluto on July 14, 2015.  Pluto is so far from Earth that not even the Hubble Space telescope is able to take clear pictures of it.  Pluto's distance from the sun varies between 30 AU and 49 AU.  One AU is the distance between the Earth and the sun.  Pluto is so distant that man will very likely not visit for many 100's of years yet to come as we do not possess the technology to make the voyage to Pluto within an acceptable period of time.  Compare this to the distance between Earth and Mars which is only 0.37 AU (35 million miles).
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To answer your second question first (I'm just an ornery cuss), Pluto is still a member of the Solar System. It's no longer considered a planet, though. It is now called a dwarf planet because of its size and extremely anomalous orbit (so look it up already).Just like the moon. asteroids, etc. it is still part of the Solar System.\n\nAs to the 1st part of your question-------Usually, as long as Mickey gives him table scraps instead of that crap from the can.Woof!Woof!
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Pluto's atmosphere is super thin and transient, so I would call it's entire atmosphere a "special phenomena."  Pluto more than likely only has an atmosphere when it is at the point of its orbit that is closer to the sun (periheion).  As Pluto continues on its orbit it moves further away, and the flux of light from the sun will more than likely no longer warm the planet woungh for it to maintain the atmosphere.  What little thin atmosphere Pluto has now will freeze to the surface of the planet over next few decades.
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My guess:\n\nIn Roman mythology Pluto is the God of the underworld, which is all cold and dark.  The ninth planet is also cold and dark.  Hence, the name.
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Pluto (planet), ninth planet from the Sun and outermost known member of the solar system. Pluto was discovered as the result of a telescopic search inaugurated in 1905 by the American astronomer Percival Lowell, who conjectured the existence of a distant planet beyond Neptune as the cause of slight perturbations (see Orbit) in the motions of Uranus. Continued by members of the Lowell Observatory staff, the search ended successfully in 1930, when the American astronomer Clyde William Tombaugh found Pluto near the position Lowell had predicted. The new planet’s mass, however, seemed insufficient to account for the perturbations of Neptune, and the search for a possible tenth planet continues.\n\nPluto revolves about the Sun once in 247.7 years at an average distance of 5.9 billion km (3.67 billion mi). The orbit is so eccentric that at certain points along its path Pluto is closer to the Sun than is Neptune. No possibility of collision exists, however, because Pluto’s orbit is inclined by more than 17.2° to the plane of the ecliptic and never actually crosses Neptune’s path.\n\nVisible only through large telescopes, Pluto is seen to have a yellowish colour. For many years very little was known about the planet, but in 1978 astronomers discovered a relatively large moon orbiting Pluto at a distance of only about 19,000 km (12,000 mi) and named it Charon. The orbits of Pluto and Charon caused them to pass repeatedly in front of one another from 1985 to 1990, enabling astronomers to determine their sizes fairly accurately. Pluto is 2,284 km (1,420 mi) in diameter, and Charon is 1,192 km (740 mi) in diameter, making them even more like a double-planet system than are the Earth and its moon. Pluto was also found to have a thin atmosphere, probably of methane, exerting a pressure on the planet’s surface that is about 100,000 times weaker than the Earth’s atmospheric pressure at sea level. The atmosphere appears to condense and form polar caps during Pluto’s long winter. The first map of Pluto’s surface was made by the Hubble Space Telescope. It shows vague light and dark regions of unknown origin.\n\nWith a density about twice that of water, Pluto is apparently made of much rockier material than are the other planets of the outer solar system. This may be the result of the kind of cold-temperature/low-pressure chemical combinations that took place during the formation of the planet. Some astronomers have suggested that Pluto may be a former satellite of Neptune, knocked into a separate orbit during the early days of the solar system. Charon would then be an accumulation of the lighter materials resulting from the collision.
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its probably half way to pluto by now. you could write the plutonians and ask them to email it back to you, this may take a few days though.
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The International Astronomical Union decided that Pluto was no longer a planet. The reason is that while Pluto is round, orbits the sun, and has three moons, it has not cleared (via gravity) its own orbit of debris.  Instead, they decided to classify it as a "dwarf planet".\n\nSee the details below.\n\nRESOLUTION 5A\nThe IAU therefore resolves that "planets" and other bodies in our Solar System, except satellites, be defined into three distinct categories in the following way:\n\n(1) A "planet" [footnote 1] is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.\n\n(2) A "dwarf planet" is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape [footnote 2] , (c) has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and (d) is not a satellite.\n\n(3) All other objects [footnote 3] except satellites orbiting the Sun shall be referred to collectively as "Small Solar-System Bodies".\n\n\nFootnote 1: The eight "planets" are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.\n\nFootnote 2: An IAU process will be established to assign borderline objects into either dwarf planet and other categories.\n\nFootnote 3: These currently include most of the Solar System asteroids, most Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), comets, and other small bodies.\n\nRESOLUTION 6A\nThe IAU further resolves:\n\nPluto is a "dwarf planet" by the above definition and is recognized as the prototype of a new category of trans-Neptunian objects.
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Neptunes axis spins counter clockwise. the rest also do the same except three of them; venus:clockwise, Uranus: rotates on side, Pluto: rotates down
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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.  Sometimes...Uranus, Pluto, Neptune.  Pluto has an unusual orbit.  Sometimes it crosses Neptune's path, making it closer to the sun than Neptune.
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Pluto is not a planet anymore... it is now a "dwarf planet."\n\nWhen it is outside Neptune's Orbit, it is 8 planets away from the Sun and when it is inside Neptune's Orbit, it is 7 planets away from the Sun.  \n\nPluto has a very eccentric orbit and spends 20 year chunks of time closer to the Sun than Neptune.\n\nAloha
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For the same reason Goofy (a dog) CAN talk and pluto (also a dog) can't!!!\n\n\n\nIT'S PRETEND!!!!!!
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The newly discovered planet that rotates our sun is called 2003 UB313, but this question is causing a stir because since theres so many objects that are the size of pluto that rotate our sun scientists are trying to define what the term "planet" exactly means.\nfor more information look at the website below from "NASA"