The relative sizes and type of orbit are similar to the Pluto – Charon ( moon ) | Charon system.

It took until 1992 to discover a second trans-Neptunian object, ( 15760 ) 1992 QB < sub > 1 </ sub >, with only the discovery of Pluto's moon Charon in 1978 before that.

* 4, 580, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup > -- Charon ( moon of Pluto )

* 1. 186 Mm — Diameter of Charon, the largest moon of Pluto

An astronomical example is Pluto's moon Charon.

A more recent and now favored hypothesis suggests that, before its capture, Triton had a massive companion similar to Pluto's moon Charon with which it formed a binary.

Pluto has the relatively large moon Charon and four smaller moons.

It should not be confused with the Plutonian moon Charon, discovered the following year, in 1978.

In 1955 the U. S. Naval Observatory joined the growing astronomical presence, and established the United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station, where Pluto's satellite, Charon ( moon ) was discovered in 1978.

Charon is a relatively large moon in comparison to its primary and also has a very close orbit.

The dwarf planet Pluto's largest moon is named Charon.

The game progresses through the Solar system, from the Moon to Mercury, then outbound towards Pluto's moon Charon.

Pluto was discovered using photographic plates in a blink comparator ; its moon Charon was discovered 48 years later by carefully examining a bulge in Pluto's image on a plate.

Its largest moon Charon is more than half as large as Pluto itself, and large enough to orbit a point outside Pluto's surface.

The sizes, and this particular type of orbit are similar to the Pluto-Charon ( moon ) | Charon system and also to Earth-Moon system in which the center of mass is inside the bigger body instead.

Training is gruellingfirst on Earth, in Missouri, and later on Charon ( not Pluto's moon, which had not yet been discovered at the time of the novel's writing, but a hypothetical planet beyond Pluto's orbit ), which results in a number of casualtiesmainly due to accidents in hostile environments but also due to the use of live weapons in training.

Because of this, along with its large moon Vanth that recalls Pluto's large moon Charon, Orcus has been seen as the anti-Pluto.

Among other trans-Neptunian objects Pluto's moon Charon appears to be most similar to Orcus.

It was initially speculated that Sedna's rotation was slowed by the gravitational pull of a large binary companion, similar to Pluto's moon Charon.

In 2012, measurements from the Herschel Space Observatory suggested that Sedna's diameter was, which would make it smaller than Pluto's moon Charon.

On June 22, 1978 while working at the United States Naval Observatory, he discovered that Pluto had a moon, which he named Charon shortly afterwards.

* Charon ( mythology ), in Greek mythology, the ferryman who ferried the dead to the underworld

* Charon ( web browser ), a web browser for the Inferno operating system

* Charon ( genus ), a genus of amblypygid

* Charon ( cars ), a Dutch automobile manufacturer

* Charon ( band ), a Finnish gothic metal band

* Charon ( CrossGen ), a comic book character from CrossGen Entertainment's Sigilverse

* Charon ( Dungeons & Dragons ), a lord of the Yugoloths whose primary function is to provide passage across the River Styx for a steep price

* Charon ( Marvel Comics ), a villainous wizard

* Charon ( The Three Worlds ), a fictional human species from Ian Irvine's arc of novels, The Three Worlds Cycle

* Caronte ( Charon ), a 1971 album by Italian band The Trip

* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.

For very large objects, with very well known orbital elements ( namely, Pluto and Charon ), diameters can be precisely measured by occultation of stars.

Peter created four more large scale stroboscopic zoetropes from 2004 to 2011: " Deeper " ( 2004 ), " Homouroboros " ( 2007 ), " Tantalus " ( 2008 ), and " Charon " ( 2011 ).

* Jacques Charon ( 1920 – 1975 ), actor

The name Charon is most often explained as a proper noun from χάρων ( charon ), a poetic form of χαρωπός ( charopós ), “ of keen gaze ”, referring either to fierce, flashing, or feverish eyes, or to eyes of a bluish-gray color.

In the 1st century BC., the Roman poet Virgil describes Charon in the course of Aeneas ’ s descent to the underworld ( Aeneid, Book 6 ), after the Cumaean Sibyl has directed the hero to the golden bough that will allow him to return to the world of the living:

Most accounts, including Pausanias ( 10. 28 ) and later Dante's Inferno ( 3. 78 ), associate Charon with the swamps of the river Acheron.

The Keres were daughters of Nyx, and as such the sisters of Fate ( Moirai ), Doom ( Moros ), Death and Sleep ( Thanatos and Hypnos ), Strife ( Eris ), Old Age ( Geras ), Divine Retribution ( Nemesis ), Charon, and other personifications.

* 1978 – Charon, a satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto, is discovered by American astronomer James W. Christy.

The dwarf planet Pluto and its satellite Charon are good examples of this — Charon is only visible from one hemisphere of Pluto and vice versa.

The spacecraft New Horizons, scheduled to pass Pluto and Charon in 2014, carries a sample of the cremated remains of Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of the dwarf planet.