In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (/ˈkɛərɒn, -ən/ KAIR-on, -ən; Ancient Greek: Χάρων) is a psychopomp, the ferryman of the Greek underworld. He carries...
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Pluto (redirect from Pluto-Charon system)
five known moons: Charon, the largest, whose diameter is just over half that of Pluto; Styx; Nix; Kerberos; and Hydra. Pluto and Charon are sometimes considered...
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Charon (/ˈkɛərɒn, -ən/ KAIR-on, -ən or /ˈʃærən/ SHAIR-ən), or (134340) Pluto I, is the largest of the five known natural satellites of the dwarf planet...
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Moons of Pluto (section Charon)
are Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra. Charon, the largest, is mutually tidally locked with Pluto, and is massive enough that Pluto and Charon are...
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Charon's obol is an allusive term for the coin placed in or on the mouth of a dead person before burial. Greek and Latin literary sources specify the coin...
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following six species: Charon ambreae Réveillion & Maquart, 2018 — Taiwan Charon forsteri (Dunn, 1949) — Solomon Islands Charon gervaisi Harvey & West...
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underworld. Charon may also refer to: Caronte (album) (Charon), a 1971 album by Italian band The Trip Charon (band), a Finnish gothic metal band Charon (CrossGen)...
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Taken by Force (redirect from The Sails of Charon)
Sails of Charon" was covered by the American thrash metal band Testament on their compilation album Signs of Chaos in 1997. "The Sails of Charon" was also...
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Charon grayi, the giant whip-spider, is a species of whip spider found in Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands...
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Royal Navy have been named HMS Charon, after Charon, the boatman to Hades across the River Styx in Greek Mythology: HMS Charon (1778) was a 44-gun fifth rate...
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Charon was a Finnish gothic metal band from Raahe. Charon was founded in 1992 by Antti Karihtala, Teemu Hautamäki, Pasi Sipilä, and Jasse Hast and was...
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entrance to the Greek Underworld where souls must be ferried across by Charon (although some later sources, such as Roman poets, assign this role to the...
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Cucullia charon is a species of moth in the family Noctuidae (the owlet moths). It is found in North America. The MONA or Hodges number for Cucullia charon is...
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Dwarf planet (section Charon)
be larger than Mercury, but with the discovery in 1978 of Pluto's moon Charon, it became possible to measure Pluto's mass accurately and to determine...
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Charon oenpelli is a species of amblypygid arachnid (whip-spider) in the Charontidae family. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 1998 by Australian...
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Rita Charon (born 1949 in Providence, Rhode Island), is a physician, literary scholar and the founder and executive director of the Program in Narrative...
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Charon is a discontinued web browser for the Inferno operating system. It had a limited support for JavaScript but none for CSS. It was originally written...
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The DEFCAD Charon is an open source 3D-printable AR-15 lower receiver project that was partially inspired by the Fabrique Nationale P90. It began as a...
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The Ring of Charon is a science fiction book by American writer Roger MacBride Allen, first published in 1990 by Tor Books. It is the first in a series...
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Charon is a fictional villain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character made his sole appearance in the 1993 X-Factor...
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Bathochordaeus charon is a species of giant larvacean, a solitary, free-swimming tunicate that filter feeds in surface waters. The species was named after Charon, the...
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Edme Viala Charon, Baron Charon (29 July 1794 – 26 November 1880) was a French soldier who rose to the rank of Lieutenant General (General of Division)...
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Jean-Émile Charon (French: [ʃaʁɔ̃]; 25 February 1920, in Paris – June 1998, in Paris) was a French nuclear physicist, philosopher and writer. He was the...
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Greek underworld (section Charon)
least four specific rivers. H. A. Guerber assumed that the rivers where Charon sailed mirrored the sky in Greco-Roman thought. In the wider mythological...
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Charon's Landing is an adventure novel by Jack Du Brul. It is the second book featuring the author's primary protagonist, Philip Mercer. Philip Mercer...
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James W. Christy (redirect from Discoverer of Charon)
(born September 15, 1938) is an American astronomer known for discovering Charon, the largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto. Christy was born in 1938 in...
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John Wick (film) (redirect from Charon (John Wick))
and devoted wife Dean Winters as Avi: Viggo's attorney Lance Reddick as Charon / Hotel Manager: The Continental's concierge Toby Leonard Moore as Victor:...
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Charon Virginia Asetoyer (née Huber, born March 24, 1951) is a Comanche activist and women's health advocate. Asetoyer is one of the founders of the Native...
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the International Astronomical Union considered a proposal that Pluto and Charon be reclassified as a double planet, but the proposal was abandoned in favor...
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The geology of Charon encompasses the characteristics of the surface, crust, and interior of Pluto's moon Charon. Like the geology of Pluto, almost nothing...
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