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How do features on Pluto and its moons get their names?
Pluto; Charon; Nix; Hydra discovery of Charon Pluto and its large moon, Charon, appear overexposed in this Hubble Space Telescope image obtained in 2006 to confirm the existence of the two small moons Nix and Hydra (at right). Pluto; Charon Pluto; Charon Pluto: Charon The orbit of Charon around Pluto as viewed from Earth, 1982–93. Between 1985 and 1990, Pluto and Charon were in a period of mutual eclipses. During each 6.4-day revolution around Pluto, Charon passed in front of Pluto, partially blocking it from view, and then disappeared behind Pluto. These mutual events occur when Charon's orbital plane around Pluto intersects Earth, which happens only twice in Pluto's 248-year trip around the Sun.
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How do features on Pluto and its moons get their names?
Learn how physical features on Pluto, Charon, and nearby moons are named according...
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Charon, Pluto's largest moon, in a photograph taken by the New Horizons spacecraft,...
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
Pluto; Charon
Pluto and its largest moon, Charon (left), as seen by the New Horizons spacecraft....
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
Pluto; Charon; Nix; Hydra
Pluto and three of its moons—Charon, Nix, and Hydra—as observed by the Hubble Space...
HST Pluto Companion Search/ESA/NASA
discovery of Charon
One of the discovery photographs of Pluto's moon Charon, taken at the U.S. Naval...
Official U.S. Navy Photograph
Pluto and its large moon, Charon, appear overexposed in this Hubble Space Telescope...
NASA, ESA, H. Weaver (JHU/APL), A. Stern (SwRI), and the HST Pluto Companion Search Team
Pluto; Charon
Pluto (centre) and Charon (lower left), as observed by the European Space Agency's...
From National Aeronautics and Space Administration/European Space Agency
Pluto; Charon
Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope's...
NASA/ESO Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility/R.Albrecht, ESA
Pluto: Charon
Images of Pluto and Charon side by side, showing relative sizes, brightness, and...
Courtesy of Marc W. Buie/Lowell Observatory
The orbit of Charon around Pluto as viewed from Earth, 1982–93. Between 1985 and...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.