The History of the Solar System: Pluto
When cloud of gas surrounding our newly born, dull yellow, star cooled everything in our solar system was born, the last skin of the dead star, made the same iron that covers the surface of Mars and swims in our blood, all of the material that makes our skin and faces, our hearts and brains were all first made together in a colourful ball of light in the sky. The exploded debris circled the left-over star like water circling a drain, and eventually the lumpiness of the matter meant that it fell together again making different sized spheres at different distances. Some were so heavy that the matter near them began to circle them too, and from this the planets and their moons formed.

Far away from the Sun's warmth lies an icy edge to the solar system, the Oort cloud, where one hundred thousand million comets were born. Much further in than this, just outside of the orbit of Neptune, the Kuiper Belt, another cloud of comets, formed from debris of the explosion that were too small to form a planet. The largest of these we call Pluto, five times less massive than our Moon and covered in frozen methane Pluto spins with its twin planet Charon crossing the orbit of Neptune every few hundred years.














Image courtesy of SMH.
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