Dawdling Dwarf

Bonus Fun Fact: Since its discovery in 1930, Pluto has yet to complete a single orbit around the sun. While Earth orbits the sun every year, it takes 248 years for the dwarf planet to make a single, complete orbit. We won’t have observed a complete orbit by Pluto until the year 2178.

Image of Pluto by NASA’s New Horizons probe taken in 2014.
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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