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To: Red Badger

Pluto has 5 moons... I thought it was just Charon


37 posted on 12/02/2014 3:21:56 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL

Pluto has five known moons: Charon (the largest, with a diameter just over half that of Pluto), Nix, Hydra, Kerberos, and Styx.[22] Pluto and Charon are sometimes described as a binary system because the barycenter of their orbits does not lie within either body.[23] The IAU has yet to formalise a definition for binary dwarf planets, and Charon is officially classified as a moon of Pluto.[24]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto


50 posted on 12/03/2014 6:44:03 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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