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Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...
The Bay Sages heard from the Delta Astronomical Society (DAS) during its monthly meeting on Thursday. DAS Newsletter Editor ...
Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there. The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of ...
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Charon, Pluto’s largest moon, has a tidally locked orbit. This means that if our crew can see Charon from where they landed, it will never move across the sky. Charon is also much closer to ...
This event probably scattered these tiny worlds into orbit around Pluto and Charon. To give you an idea of scale, Pluto is roughly 66% the diameter of the Moon, and is only 18% of its mass.