• Question: why does Pluto orbit differently from the other planets?

    Asked by Experiment lover45! to Craig, Flavia, Giuditta, Jack, Sheona on 16 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Giuditta Perversi

      Giuditta Perversi answered on 16 Nov 2015:

      Pluto is REALLY small! It’s smaller than the Moon, it’s surface area is smaller than the dimensions of Russia! 😀
      If you mix this with the fact that it’s really far away from the Sun, we get the fact that the orbit is really elliptic (a much squashed circle) and it’ not even in plane with all the other planets because it’s not as “blocked” as the others on the concept “you need to be in this plane and in this way because you’re big but the Sun is bigger”!

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