1. An 11-year-old girl gave Pluto its name.
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  2. Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the Sun.
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  3. Our moon is bigger than Pluto and 1/4 the diameter of Earth.
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  4. Pluto, Mickey Mouse's dog, was named after the planet, not the other way around.
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  5. Pluto never made a full revolution around the sun while it was still considered a planet.
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  6. Pluto has ice made out of water and a blue sky.
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  7. Pluto was discovered
    by a young
    research assistant
    in 1930.
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  8. Pluto has a heart shape on its surface.
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  9. Pluto was demoted to dwarf planet status not because it was too small, but because it's not unique among a mass of objects that orbit the sun beyond Neptune.
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  10. On Earth, the only ice is frozen water. On Pluto, nitrogen, methane and carbon monoxide also freeze solid.
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  11. Pluto is, by law, still a planet in New Mexico.
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