What are the major characteristics of the outer planets?

Pluto

made of gaseous material, craters, rings, and large families of satellite's.

The outer planets, or jovian planets, AKA the gas giants are what they say they are. Made of gas with a solid core, these giants orbit the sun outside of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter....

To qualify as a planet, a body has to be approximately spherical (achieving hydrostatic equilibrium under its own gravity), it has to orbit the sun directly and it has to have cleared its orbit of...

All outer planets have a gaseous atmosphere and are larger than planets the inner planets it also takes them longer to rotate the sun they are typically colder and have more moons.