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Pluto is a dwarf planet in our solar system, located in the Kuiper Belt, a region filled with icy bodies beyond Neptune.

Key Facts About Pluto
• Discovery: 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh
• Status: Reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006
• Distance from Sun: About 5.9 billion km (varies due to its elliptical orbit)
• Orbital Period: ~248 Earth years
• Day Length: One Pluto day is about 6.4 Earth days
• Size: Diameter ~2,377 km (about 1/6 the width of Earth)
• Surface: Mostly nitrogen ice with methane and carbon monoxide
• Temperature: Extremely cold (around –230°C to –240°C)
• Moons: 5 moons — Charon (the largest), Nix, Hydra, Kerberos, and Styx

Interesting Features
• Heart-shaped region: Called Tombaugh Regio, discovered by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015.
• Binary system: Pluto and Charon are sometimes considered a double dwarf planet because Charon is so large relative to Pluto.

If you want, I can also explain why Pluto was demoted, details about New Horizons, or comparisons with other dwarf planets!

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