9 Facts About Pluto You Need to Know 

Pluto was first discovered by a young research assistant Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff 

An 11-year-old girl gave Pluto its name after the Roman god of the Underworld. 

Pluto is smaller than Earth’s moon but larger than previously thought. Pluto is 18.5% the size of Earth. 

Disney’s Pluto - The dog debuted in the same year and the dog was named after the former planet.

New Horizons, the first vessel devoted to studying Pluto’s environment, is the size of a grand piano. 

Pluto has a heart shape on its surface Images released by NASA show a heart shape that measures approximately 1,000 miles across. 

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Pluto was actually downgraded to dwarf planet because it’s simply not unique. Pluto is merely the brightest member of the Kuiper Belt, a mass of objects that orbit the sun beyond Neptune.

Scientists discovered the Solar System’s third zone because of Pluto.

Pluto is just the tip of the iceberg. It is just the beginning.

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