Too bad writers can’t relate to people well.
Pluto is: 2,370 kilometers (1,473 miles)
Our moon is: 1,737.10 km (wiki sucks too, can’t even show miles)
So it’s about 1/4 larger than our moon. Or 125% the size of our moon.
And our moon, at approximately 2100 miles across, is about 1/4 the diameter of Earth (~8000 miles in diameter) — about from New York City to Idaho. In other words, if the Earth was where the moon is, it would be 4 times as wide as the moon in the sky.
News writers rarely seem to be able to relate to people very well, especially with science-related subjects.
I’ve always been amazed that Pluto was even discovered. It’s so small and at the time it was discovered, we didn’t have the telescopes we have today.
Pluto is about 1473 miles in diameter. The moon is 2158 miles in diameter.
I once edited Wikipedia, for the distance from the Earth to the Moon, it had it in KMs and I put the miles next to it in parenthesis.
Some GD eurotrash reverted my edit and spouted some BS about how I should just covert it in my head.
Anyway, cool to have real pictures of Pluto.
The moon is larger than Pluto, you are using the wrong numbers to compare.