Apod 2006 September 3 Pluto In True Color

This article is about the dwarf planet. for other uses, see pluto (disambiguation)..Astronomy picture of the day dated archive listing.2006 (mmvi) was a common year starting on sunday of the gregorian calendar (dominical letter a), the 2006th year of the common era (ce) and anno domini (ad. Although pluto was discovered in 1930, limited information on the distant object delayed a realistic understanding of its characteristics. pluto is the second largest.