Synonyms for pluto
ˈplu toʊplu·to

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1. Plutonoun

   Originally known as the ninth planet but reclassified in 2006 as a dwarf planet, the brightest and first known Kuiper belt object, represented by the symbol in astronomy and in astrology.

   Synonyms:
   Planet X, , 134340 Pluto

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1. Plutonoun

   a cartoon character created by Walt Disney

2. Pluto, Hades, Aides, Aidoneusnoun

   (Greek mythology) the god of the underworld in ancient mythology; brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone

   Synonyms:
   netherworld, underworld, infernal region

3. Plutonoun

   a small planet and the farthest known planet from the sun; it has the most elliptical orbit of all the planets

   "Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930"

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1. Tanguy Bertrand:

   Sputnik Planitia may be as important for Pluto's climate as the ocean is for Earth's climate, if you remove Sputnik Planitia -- if you remove the heart of Pluto -- you won't have the same circulation.

2. Jeff Moore:

   The surface of Pluto is every bit as complex as that of Mars, the randomly jumbled mountains might be huge blocks of hard water ice floating within a vast, denser, softer deposit of frozen nitrogen within the region informally named Sputnik Planum.

3. New Horizons:

   Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we’ve seen in the solar system, if an artist had painted this Pluto before our flyby, I probably would have called it over the top — but that’s what is actually there.

4. Alan Stern:

   Pluto and Charon are both mind-blowing, i think that the biggest surprise is the complexity we're seeing in both objects.

5. Jim Green:

   The New Horizons mission has taken what we thought we knew about Pluto and turned it upside down, the New Horizons mission's why we explore -- to satisfy our innate curiosity and answer deeper questions about how we got here and what lies beyond the next horizon. Related : Spacecraft achieves flyby of Pluto, then calls home September NASA, which is discussing a slew of Pluto discoveries at the 47th Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences in National Harbor, Md. this week, highlighted the ‘ cryovolcanoes ’ as a key finding. Geologists on the New Horizons team combined images of Pluto’s surface to make 3-D maps that indicate two of Pluto’s most distinctive mountains could be ice volcanoes. In its statement September NASA explained that the ‘ cryovolcanoes ’ may even have been active in the recent past. The two candidates are large features on the dwarf planet’s surface measuring tens of miles across and several miles high. Related : September NASA releases first Pluto flyby images.