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How Do Features on Pluto and Its Moons Get Their Names?
Moons of Pluto 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, Charon, in a photograph taken by the New Horizons spacecraft,...
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
Pluto and Charon
This New Horizons spacecraft image shows Pluto (right) and its moon Charon (left)....
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
Moons of Pluto
Pluto and three of its moons—Charon, Nix, and Hydra—as observed by the Hubble Space...
HST Pluto Companion Search/ESA/NASA
The orbit of Charon around Pluto as viewed from Earth, 1982–93. Between 1985 and...
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