Charon (/ˈkɛərɒn, -ən/ KAIR-on, -⁠ən or /ˈʃærən/ SHAIR-ən), known as (134340) Pluto I, is the largest of the five known natural satellites of the dwarf...

planet Pluto has five natural satellites. In order of distance from Pluto, they are Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra. Charon, the largest, is mutually...

of dwarf planets, Charon has the largest ratio, being 0.52 the diameter and 12.2% the mass of Pluto. The first known natural satellite was the Moon, but...

thought before Charon was discovered. The discovery of Pluto's satellite Charon in 1978 enabled a determination of the mass of the Pluto–Charon system by application...

× 40 km (34 mi × 25 mi). List of natural satellites The instantaneous force at Hydra's distance in the Pluto–Charon–Hydra alignment case is 4.62% larger than...

have satellites substantially less massive than the dwarf planets themselves. The most notable exception is the Pluto–Charon system. The Charon-to-Pluto...

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...

example is the dwarf planet Pluto and its satellite Charon. They have already reached a state where Charon is visible from only one hemisphere of Pluto...

known inner regular satellites, and eight outer irregular satellites. Pluto, a dwarf planet, has five moons. Its largest moon Charon, named after the ferryman...

Eris and is the second-largest known moon of a dwarf planet, after Pluto I Charon. It was discovered in September 2005 by Mike Brown and the Laser Guide Star...

{\textstyle P_{C}=6.3872304\,d} is Charon's period. Showalter, M. R.; Hamilton, D. P. (20 July 2011). "New Satellite of (134340) Pluto: S/2011 (134340)...

The IAU currently says Charon is not considered a dwarf planet but rather a satellite of Pluto, though the idea that Charon might qualify as a dwarf...

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

them Charon, Styx, and Cerberus. Upon discovery, Styx received the minor planet designation S/2012 (134340) 1 because it was the first satellite (S) discovered...

Leslie A.; Stern, S. Alan (2006). "Orbits and Photometry of Pluto's Satellites: Charon, S/2005 P1, and S/2005 P2". The Astronomical Journal. 132 (1): 290–298...

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

binary after Pluto–Charon, 1998 WW31, was optically resolved in 2002. In 2005, the asteroid 87 Sylvia was discovered to have two satellites, making it the...

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 a...

(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...

of Charon's orbit (see Pluto's natural satellites for details). The near resonances may be maintained by a 15% local fluctuation in the Pluto-Charon gravitational...

which the two bodies revolve around the barycenter, much like the Pluto–Charon system. It is hypothesized that both systems formed similarly, most likely...

Artist's concept of the Saturnian satellite system A satellite system is a set of gravitationally bound objects in orbit around a planetary mass object...

Search for an atmosphere around Charon Map surface temperatures on Pluto and Charon Search for rings and additional satellites around Pluto Conduct similar...

after Pluto I Charon, Eris I Dysnomia, Orcus I Vanth, and possibly Varda I Ilmarë and Salacia I Actaea. Hiʻiaka was the first satellite discovered around...

moons (Umbriel, Ariel and Miranda) is unclear, as is that of Pluto's moon Charon. The TNO moons Eris I Dysnomia, Orcus I Vanth, and possibly Varda I Ilmarë...

is about the sixth-biggest known moon of a trans-Neptunian object, after Charon (1212 km), Dysnomia (700 km), Vanth (443 km), Ilmarë (326 km) and Hiʻiaka...

trans-Neptunian object or icy satellite of the outer planets other than Miranda. The 1.65 μm band on Orcus is broad and deep (12%), as on Charon, Quaoar, Haumea, and...

moon Charon. Much more commonly, synchronous orbits are employed by artificial satellites used for communication, such as geostationary satellites. For...

designation (a system introduced by Galileo) as "Jupiter I", or as "the first satellite of Jupiter". The customary English pronunciation of the name is /ˈaɪoʊ/...

Titan was the first known moon of Saturn, and the sixth known planetary satellite (after Moon Earth's moon and the four Galilean moons of Jupiter). Titan...