Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune.It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun.It is the largest known trans-Neptunian object by volume by a small margin, but is less massive than Eris.Like other Kuiper belt objects, Pluto is made primarily of ice and rock ...

pluton, body of intrusive igneous rock the size, composition, shape, or exact type of which is in doubt; when such characteristics are known, more limiting terms can be used. Thus, plutons include dikes, laccoliths, batholiths, sills, and other forms of intrusions.

A pluton that has intruded and obscured the contact between a terrane and adjacent rock is called a stitching pluton.

Mar 17, 2025 · Plutón está catalogado como un planeta enano. En 2006, Plutón fue categorizado con otros tres objetos en el sistema solar que son aproximadamente del mismo tamaño que Plutón: Ceres, Makemake y Eris.

Feb 7, 2019 · A pluton (pronounced "PLOO-tonn") is a deep-seated intrusion of igneous rock, a body that made its way into pre-existing rocks in a melted form several kilometers underground in the Earth's crust and then solidified.

Sep 3, 2019 · A pluton is a type of rock that is formed when magma cools and solidifies underground. Plutons are not to be confused with volcanic rocks, which are the rock that is formed when the magma becomes lava (post-eruption) and flows over the surface of the Ears and then cools and hardens.

A body of intrusive igneous rock which crystallizes from magma cooling underneath the surface of the Earth is called a pluton. If the pluton is large, it may be called a batholith or a stock depending on the area exposed at the surface.

Nov 5, 2024 · Pluto was named by an 11-year-old girl. In 1930, Venetia Burney of Oxford, England, suggested to her grandfather that the new discovery be named for the Roman god of the underworld. He forwarded the name to the Lowell Observatory and it was selected. In an interview with NASA in January 2006, Venetia said she offered the name Pluto over breakfast with her …

Mar 12, 2025 · NASA's New Horizons was the first and, so far, the only mission to explore Pluto. New Horizons also was the first mission to explore the solar system's recently discovered "third zone," the region beyond the giant planets called the Kuiper Belt.

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