• Question: how far is pluto from earth

    Asked by anon-245788 to Sam, Samantha, Nicol, Lori-Ann, Liam, David on 11 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Lori-Ann Foley

      Lori-Ann Foley answered on 11 Mar 2020:

      Pluto has a really eccentric orbit, so instead of going around the sun in a circle, it is a big ellipse. That means that sometimes Pluto is closer to Earth than at other times. At the closest point, Earth and Pluto are 4.2 billion km away – that’s 4200000000 km! When they are farthest away it is 7.5 billion km.

    • Photo: Samantha Faircloth

      Samantha Faircloth answered on 11 Mar 2020:

      Hello Giorgio, the ‘dwarf’ planet Pluto is even further away than Neptune – which is the furthest ‘normal’ planet from Earth. Pluto is 5 billion kilometres away or 4.7 billion miles (if you prefer miles to kilometres)!! Hard to imagine isn’t it??!! It gets very cold there : -)

    • Photo: David Sobral

      David Sobral answered on 11 Mar 2020:

      It’s always incredibly far, but sometimes it gets slightly nearer and then even further away. Something like 6000000000 km away from Earth on average

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