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An intense search conducted by New Horizons confirmed that no moons larger than 4.5 km in diameter exist out to distances up to 180,000 km from Pluto (6% of the stable region for prograde moons), assuming Charon-like albedoes of 0.38 (for smaller distances, this threshold is still smaller).
Pluto (bottom left) compared in size to the Earth and the Moon. Pluto's diameter is 2 376.6 ± 3.2 km [5] and its mass is (1.303 ± 0.003) × 10 22 kg, 17.7% that of the Moon (0.22% that of Earth). [125] Its surface area is 1.774 443 × 10 7 km 2, or just slightly bigger than Russia or Antarctica (particularly including the Antarctic sea ice ...
For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large moon Charon, which is about half the size of the dwarf planet. Now, new research suggests that Pluto and ...
It was discovered by use of the Hubble Space Telescope, and is the smallest of the five known moons of Pluto. It was imaged along with Pluto and Pluto's other moons by the New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015, albeit poorly with only a single image of Styx obtained. [5] Styx is the second-closest known satellite to Pluto, and the fifth discovered.
Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope are giving scientists a fuller understanding about the composition and evolution of Pluto's moon Charon, the largest moon orbiting any of our solar ...
Simple English; Slovenčina ... Pages in category "Moons of Pluto" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Authors and artists associated with space exploration, especially Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. Some features discovered by the New Horizons mission have been given provisional names based on various science fiction and fantasy franchises, including Star Wars , Star Trek , Doctor Who , Alien , Firefly , and Macross . [ 3 ]
[3] [7] [33] [34] Pluto was held to be the ninth and outermost planet of the Solar System from its 1930 discovery until its reclassification from planet to dwarf planet in 2006; [33] some works from before the discovery of Pluto imagine a ninth planet beyond the orbit of Neptune, [16] and many works from when Pluto was counted as the ninth ...