The snowy atmosphere of Pluto forms when Pluto is closest to the sun. This causes the opposite of the green house effect, thus turning its ice into gas. This causes Pluto to get even colder.
When Pluto moves away from the sun it's atmosphere freezes to such a cold temperature that it breaks and falls to the surface in form of snow. Pluto's snow is mainly composed of Nitrogen and Methane. Pluto's snowy atmosphere is annually formed when Pluto is farthest from the sun. |
Pluto was formed as a result of two icy masses colliding. This collision created a ring of debris revolving around the misshapen planet of Pluto. The debris ring collected among it self and formed to create Charon. Many reasons referring to the formation of Pluto support the fact that it is not a Planet. Such as...
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