(NOFS). With half the diameter and one-eighth the mass of Pluto, Charon is a very large moon in comparison to its parent body. Its gravitational influence...

sometimes considered a binary dwarf planet. The innermost and largest moon, Charon, was discovered by James Christy on 22 June 1978, nearly half a century...

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...

has 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...

Plutonian moons. Hydra's reflectivity is intermediate, in between those of Pluto and Charon. The New Horizons spacecraft imaged Pluto and its moons in July...

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)...

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...

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 Milwaukee...

Earth–Moon system, 1 to 4220), the Jupiter–Ganymede system at 0.038, and the Uranus–Titania system at 0.031. For the category of dwarf planets, Charon has...

large red area about 475 km in diameter near the north pole of Charon, Pluto's largest moon. It is named after the black land called Mordor in J.R.R. Tolkien's...

Lempo–Paha at 50%). The largest known minor-planet moon in absolute size is Pluto's largest moon Charon, which itself has about half the diameter of Pluto...

Pluto and its moon Charon might be accompanied with other moons, hence they used the Hubble Space Telescope to search for faint moons around Pluto in...

planets in the future. But a report in 2006 classified Charon–Pluto as a double planet. The Moon-to-Earth mass ratio of 0.01230 (≈ 1⁄81) is also notably...

Dysnomia) is the only known moon of the dwarf planet Eris and is the second-largest known moon of a dwarf planet, after Pluto I Charon. It was discovered in...

largest moon, Charon. The exposure time was too short to see Pluto's smaller, much fainter moons. Investigators compiled a series of images of the moons Nix...

System, Pluto. While the minor-planet moon Charon of the Pluto-Charon system is larger relative to Pluto, the Moon is the largest natural satellite of the...

mainly of water ice. Animation of moons of Pluto around the barycenter of Pluto – Ecliptic plane Styx orbits the Pluto–Charon barycenter at a distance of 42...

to 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...

gravitational influences of Pluto and Charon as they orbit their barycenter causes the chaotic tumbling of Pluto's small moons, including Kerberos. At the time...

large well-known moons, are not tidally locked. Pluto and Charon are an extreme example of a tidal lock. Charon is a relatively large moon in comparison...

Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second-largest in the Solar System. It is the only moon known to have an atmosphere denser than the Earth's...

is the unofficial name given to a large pull-apart fault on Pluto's moon, Charon. It is part of a series of faults that run along the perimeter of Vulcan...

below) As such, an early proposed name for Eris (dwarf planet) and Charon (moon) Alternate name for Planet Nine Persephone (spacecraft), a proposed orbiter...

Orcus 1 moon: Vanth Pluto 5 moons: Charon, Hydra, Nix, Kerberos, Styx Haumea Ring 2 moons: Hiʻiaka, Namaka Quaoar Rings 1 moon: Weywot Makemake 1 moon: MK2...

accurate, it may be the fourth- or fifth-largest known moon of a Trans-Neptunian object, after Pluto I Charon, Eris I Dysnomia, Orcus I Vanth, and possibly Varda...

outer irregular satellites. Pluto, a dwarf planet, has five moons. Its largest moon Charon, named after the ferryman who took souls across the River Styx...

second-smallest of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter. Slightly larger than Earth's moon, Io is the fourth-largest moon in the Solar System, has the...

properties of the body in question. Binary objects, objects with moons such as the Pluto–Charon system, are quite common among the larger trans-Neptunian objects...

full Moon is between 300 and 50 mlx). View from Hydra. Pluto and Charon (right); Nix (left) (artist concept). View from Pluto. Sun (right-top); Charon (left)...

and its moon Charon. The barycenter of those two bodies is always outside Pluto's surface. This has led some astronomers to call the Pluto–Charon system...