A 3D model of Pluto. Downloads glTF File (3D Model) Sep 9, 2023. GLB (6.68 MB) USDZ File (3D Model) Sep 9, 2023. USDZ (1.45 MB) National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA explores the unknown in air and space, innovates for the benefit of humanity, and inspires the world through discovery. About NASA's Mission; Join Us.. 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.
72 Pluto+Charon.jpg When Hardy painted Pluto for 'Challenge of the Stars' in 1972 it was not known that Pluto (then a planet too!) had not only a large moon, Charon, but several much smaller ones. As this image has always been rather popular he decided to update it, digitally, as above.. Pluto Diagram I diagram I painted in 1999 of Pluto. On.. These outer solar system diagrams show the positions of objects with semi-major axes (a) greater than 6 au (orbital periods greater than ~15 years) on 2018 January 1. The orbits and positions of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Eris, Sedna, and comets Halley and Hale-Bopp are also shown. The orbits of objects beyond Neptune are drawn.