Is Pluto wider than Earth’s Moon?

For most of the twentieth century Pluto was counted as the ninth planet, and a planet sounds much bigger than a moon. But Pluto is small. Its diameter is about 2,376 km, while our own Moon measures about 3,475 km across, so the Moon is about one and a half times as wide; put the other way, Pluto is only about two-thirds as wide as the Moon. Its small size is part of the reason astronomers reclassified it as a dwarf planet in 2006. This comparison is about physical size, the width of each world, not how big they look in the sky. The Moon looks large because it is close to us, while Pluto, far beyond Neptune, cannot be seen without a telescope. Measured across, the former planet loses clearly to our Moon.