Yes, many times. It takes it 248 years to go around the Sun, and while it was not discovered until 1930, it has been there for millions of years.
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No, no robot has gone to Pluto, other than the onboard computers of the New Horizons spacecraft, which observed Pluto from orbit.
No. No space shuttle was ever built to leave orbit around Earth. The New Horizons space probe, an unmanned spacecraft, flew past Pluto in July 2015.
0.00403087 times in one year.248 earth years.Pluto revolves around the sun all the time. Even without ever stopping, it takes248 years to complete one revolution. Since its discovery in 1930, Pluto has madeless than 1/3 of a complete orbit around the sun.
Yes. Sometimes Neptune is father away from the sun than Pluto. Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's. None of the other seven planets ever get farther away from the sun that Pluto.
Technically Pluto will never be in the eighth planet position again because it is no longer classified as a planet. However, Pluto is closer to the Sun than Neptune starting every 228 years. The duration of this position lasts roughly 20 years.