Questions tagged [pluto]
Questions regarding the former 9th (now dwarf) planet Pluto.
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How close will Pluto come to Earth this year (2024)?
For reasons associated with a 1943 story, I am keen to find how close Earth will come to Pluto in 2024. According to https://theskylive.com/pluto-tracker today (21-May-2024), Pluto is now slowly ...
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How can I calculate the geocentric longitude of Pluto in a similar way to VSOP87's algorithm?
The book "Astronomical Algorithms" teaches a way to calculate the position of any of the planets for almost any date, until you get to Pluto.
To try to get around that, I attempted to ...
