Shervin, age 11 asks… How far away is Pluto?
About five and a half billion kilometres away. Pluto is so far that scientists do not have a detailed picture of it. To imagine how far it really is, think of a scaled down model of the solar system with the Sun 27 inches across the middle. At this scale the Earth would be the size of a pea and 245 feet away from the Sun. Pluto would be the size of a period at the end of a sentence and roughly three km. away from the 27 inch sun.
