... Headed for the first close-up exploration of the Pluto-Charon system and the icy denizens of the Kuiper belt , NASA's New ... New Horizons' planned arrival at Pluto-Charon is in the summer of 2015. Tomorrow's picture: V838 . < | Archive | Index | ...
... Compared to Pluto and its large moon Charon, at 2,360 and 1,210 kilometers in ... Pluto and Charon are bright enough to create diffraction spikes in this Hubble Space ...
... created by tracking brightness changes from Earth of Pluto during times when it was being partially eclipsed by its moon Charon ... The map therefore shows the hemisphere of Pluto that faces Charon. ...
... created by tracking brightness changes from Earth of Pluto during times when it was being partially eclipsed by its moon Charon ... The map therefore shows the hemisphere of Pluto that faces Charon. ...
... Charon 586 1.90e21 2.24 .32 15.5 S ( z ) Key : Radius Equatorial radius in km (highly uncertain for the small outer solar ... 11.9 (z) the masses, radii and densities of Pluto and Charon are still somewhat uncertain ( ) Some of the data above is given ...
... It covers a full 10 by 7 degree field in the pronounceable constellation Ophiuchus. Tomorrow's picture: Pluto, Charon, Nix, Hydra . < | Archive | ...
... These two panels are composites of both the short and long exposures that include brighter Pluto itself along with Pluto's largest moon Charon. ...
... The featured time lapse video shows Pluto and Pluto's largest moon, Charon , orbiting their common center of mass in 13 frames taken from April 12 to April 18. ...