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Charon

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Latest Data from Charon. What Did New Horizons Manage to Capture?

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What Would Standing on Pluto's Moon Charon Feel Like?

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Charon at 40: The Discovery of Pluto’s Largest Moon

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Why do Pluto and Charon orbit around nothing?

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Charon moon/pluto moon fan song!

Charon, also known as (134340) Pluto I, is the largest of the five known natural satellites of the dwarf planet Pluto. It has a mean radius of 606 km. It was discovered in 1978 at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., using photographic plates taken at the United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station (NOFS).
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  • Observation and exploration 

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