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...Pluto, they wouldn't have to diet. Pluto's gravity is so weak that a man weighing 300 lbs. (136 kg) on Earth would weigh just 20 lbs. (9 kg) on Pluto ? Unfortunately, breathing would be impossible. In addition to being intolerably cold, Pluto has a thin?and temporary???atmosphere of nitrogen molecules, with traces of carbon monoxide and methane. When the planet moves farther from the sun, the atmosphere freezes back onto the surface ? Pluto is one of only two planets that rotate on their horizontal axis. Uranus is the other. A day on Pluto is equal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next Stop, Pluto | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

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