• Question: How big is pluto?

    Asked by farhan010200 to Ben, Jony, Katharine, Mark, Peter on 15 Nov 2011.
    • Photo: Katharine Schofield

      Katharine Schofield answered on 15 Nov 2011:

      It’s about 2/3 the size of our moon. There’s been lots of arguments about whether Pluto is a planet or not, because it’s so small. In 2008 a group of expert scientists got together to thrash out the arguments and in the end decided it wasn’t a planet.

    • Photo: Ben Still

      Ben Still answered on 15 Nov 2011:

      Small! Not even the biggest of the objects that float around in the area of the solar system called the Kuiper belt. Pluto was essentially a political planet as it was the only planet to be discovered by an American astronomer. I agree with the 2008 ruling that it is not a planet, it is just a rock from the Kuiper belt.

    • Photo: Peter Williams

      Peter Williams answered on 15 Nov 2011:

      too small to be a planet, but too big to easily fit in your garage

    • Photo: Mark Basham

      Mark Basham answered on 15 Nov 2011:

      Lots of answers here, but for your information its about 600 000 double decker buses across 🙂

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