9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook Dictionary Encyclopedia Wikipedia </>embed</> ferryman Greek mythology Charon noun Words related to Charon noun(Greek mythology) the ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the river Styx or the river...
Pluto’s Moons (Size & Orbits) Facts about Charon Charon was named for the Greek mythological figure Charon, the ferryman to Styx. It has two different pronunciations: “SHARE-on”, in honour of the discoverer’s wife’s name (used) NASA and the members of the New Horizons mission), an...
both Pluto and Charon orbit a point in space between them — their common center of mass. The other four moons in the system — Styx, Nix, Kerberos and Hydra — orbit both Pluto and
FromScience News Persephone would send a spacecraft armed with high-resolution cameras to orbit Pluto for three years and map its surface as well as that of its largest moon, Charon. FromMIT Technology Review In particular, Pluto could be ringed: we know it has at least five moons, which,...
Four small moons (Styx, Nix, Kerberos and Hydra) are at present known to orbit around the barycenter of Pluto and Charon, which are themselves considered a binary dwarf-planet due to their relatively high mass ratio. The central, non-axisymmetric potential induces moon orbits inconvenient to be...
The evolution of icy moons is primarily controlled by the mode and efficiency of heat transfer through the outer ice shell, which is influenced by the presence of impurities, by tidal dissipation in the ice shell, and by the radioactive element budget in the silicate core. Previous studies on...
The moons of trans-Neptunian objects Pluto (Charon) and Orcus (Vanth) may also have formed by means of a large collision: the Pluto–Charon, Orcus–Vanth and Earth–Moon systems are unusual in the Solar System in that the satellite's mass is at least 1% that of the larger body. Wiki...
Two other moons in the Solar System (EnceladusandEuropa) have evidence of cryovolcanism along fault lines caused by “tidal squeezing” from Saturn and Jupiter respectively. Charon is not subjected to tidal forces from Pluto and the theorized cryovolcanism covers a greater area than this process ...
MoonsDustWe conducted an extensive search for dust or debris rings in the Pluto-Charon system before, during, and after the New Horizons encounter in July 2015. Methodologies included attempting to detect features by back-scattered light during the approach to Pluto (phase angle α 15°), in ...
Pluto; Charon; Nix; HydraPluto and three of its moons—Charon, Nix, and Hydra—as observed by the Hubble Space Telescope.(more) For every orbit completed by Charon, Hydra completes about one-sixth of an orbit, Kerberos about one-fifth, Nix about one-fourth, and Styx one-third. This mea...