For most of its life Pluto has been the incredible shrinking planet. When first discovered, astronomers thought it was the size of Jupiter, then Earth, then Earth’s moon.
We’ve known for a while that it is about two-thirds the size of our moon, but New Horizons took a more exact measurement.
It is 1,473 miles in diameter.
That makes it bigger than Eris, the largest of its known rivals in the Kuiper Belt. And that makes it, as the NASA press releases say: “The King of the Kuiper Belt.”