>I'm certainly not an expert, but I don't know how they know what something that far aways is in the first place. All the pics of Pluto I ever saw is just a around white spot.
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>I saw a documentry of our solar system once and they said that the distance between the sun and Pluto would be like someone holding a regular 100 watts light bulb and another person holding a B-B pellet some 10 miles away.
>It blew my mind....:-)
The distance Sun-Pluto is around 40 AU (40 Astronomical Units, i.e., 40 times the distance Sun-Earth). That means that for any hypothetical inhabitant or visitor of Pluto, the Sun would seem 1/1600 as bright as for an inhabitant on Earth. For a start, that means it's
really cold over there, apart from being dark. Also, spacecraft can most likely no longer use solar energy, and must instead use nuclear reactors.
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