Spectrophotometry of Pluto-Charon Mutual Events: does not depend on orientation. Therefore, Individual Spectra of Pluto and Charon10. S. W. Keller et al.,ACS Symp. Ser. 351, 114 (1987).11. B. Batlogg et al.,Pbys.Rev. Lett. 58, 2333 (1987). lowing worst-case experiment. ...
Pamela:… And the more we can learn about the other moons of Pluto and Charon, the more we’ll know about that particular system. Fraser:So what does the future hold for our Moon? It’s moving away from us, so what’s in the far future?
Pamela:… And the more we can learn about the other moons of Pluto and Charon, the more we’ll know about that particular system. Fraser:So what does the future hold for our Moon? It’s moving away from us, so what’s in the far future?
Pluto travels on a highly elliptical orbit around the sun. At its closest point, known as "perihelion", Pluto is only 4.4 billion kilometers out. That's nearly 30 AU, or 30 times the distance from the Earth to the sun. Pluto last reached this point on September 5th, 1989. At its mo...
Virtually every planet in the solar system has moons. Earth has the moon, Mars has Phobos and Deimos, and Jupiter and Saturn have 67 and 62 officially named moons, respectively. Heck, even the recently-demoted dwarf planet Pluto has five confirmed moons – Charon, Nix, Hydra, Kerberos and ...