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

* Charon ( moon ), a moon of the dwarf planet Pluto

* 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.

* Charon, an inmate in the game Dead Island, who worked for multiple terrorist and hacker groups

Modern historians regard the chronology as uncertain but, according to the ancient account, these predecessors included for example Dionysius of Miletus, Charon of Lampsacus, Hellanicus of Lesbos, Xanthus of Lydia and, the best attested of them all, Hecataeus of Miletus.

* July 14 – NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is expected to fly by Pluto and Charon at 50, 000 kilometers per hour and explore the area for five months, until the distance becomes too great.

A coin to pay Charon for passage, usually an obolus or danake, was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a dead person.

His name was imported from Greek Charon, although it is uncertain whether Etruscans had a native name for a god of the underworld before this.

His songs often make references to Greek and Roman mythological characters such as the ferryman Charon and the God of wine and pleasure, Bacchus, brought for comic effect into Stockholm's surroundings.

The Last Judgment, a fresco in the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo ( 1534 – 41 ), came under persistent attack in the Counter-Reformation for, among other things, nudity ( later painted over for several centuries ), not showing Christ seated or bearded, and including the pagan figure of Charon.

The deceased were buried with an obolus, placed in the mouth of the corpse, in order that, once a dead person's shade reached the underworld of Hades, it would be able to pay Charon for passage across the river Acheron.

They were supported during the attack by fire from Charon and Lowestoffe, the latter being badly damaged when she grounded for a while as she tried to get closer.

The Hierarchy vigorously prosecutes Puppetry, both due to the Code of Charon and out of compassion for the mortals who are abused by Puppeteers ; still, the ability to " skinride " and reclaim some semblance of life and feeling is too much for many ghosts to pass up.

In the original draft proposal, an exception was made for Pluto and its largest satellite, Charon, which possess a barycenter outside the volume of either body.

He had a fake duplicate of the gauntlet created and then switched it for the real one during a duel with the Charon Claw's former wielder.

* Category II: Any mission to the Earth's Moon, Venus, comets, Jupiter, Pluto / Charon, Kuiper Belt Objects, other locations of interest for studying prebiotic chemistry and the origin of life but for which there is an insignificant probability of contamination with Earth life.

He was imprisoned by Charon for some time before being freed by the group as they rescued Zaida's baby Memi.

“ You are the ‘ spiritual intersection ’ of all these particles ,” continues Charon “ Your eons will remember you, your ‘ I ,’ for all their lives.

Other members of The First were exiled ( Animora-exiled by Ingra ) or captured ( Evinlea-captured by Charon, see Negation for more details ).

Charon ( mythology ) | Charon coming to ferry souls to Inferno ( Dante ) | Hell, in Canto 10 of The Divine Comedy.

Charon is the first named mythological character Dante meets in the underworld, in the third canto of Inferno.

Elsewhere, Charon appears as a cranky, skinny old man or as a winged demon wielding a double hammer, although Michelangelo's interpretation, influenced by Dante's depiction in Inferno, canto 3, shows him with an oar over his shoulder, ready to beat those who delay (“ batte col remo qualunque s ' adagia ”, Inferno 3, verse 111 ).

In Dante Alighieri | Dante's Inferno ( Dante ) | Inferno, Charon ( mythology ) | Charon ferries souls across the subterranean river Acheron.

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

Such a situation already exists in the Pluto – Charon system.

The Pluto – Charon system is unusual in that the center of mass lies in open space between the two, a characteristic sometimes associated with a double-planet system.

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

Pluto's four other moons, Nix, Hydra, S / 2011 P 1, and S / 2012 P 1, are far smaller and orbit the Pluto – Charon system.

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.

The Pluto Kuiper Express mission was a space mission designed to flyby the Pluto – Charon system and at least one other large object in the Kuiper belt beyond Pluto's orbit.

Mike Brown suspects that like the Pluto – Charon system, Orcus and Vanth are tidally locked.

They ’ ll carry it with them in their future life …. And this future life in the body of eons will be very long, almost as long as the Universe itself .” Suggests Charon, “ the electrons which form my body are not only carriers of what I call ‘ my ’ spirit, but, in fact constitute my spirit itself .” Electrons are sent individually into the Universe to learn and to increase the order of the Universe ; “ the psychic level of the whole Universe progressively elevates itself … during the ‘ successively lived experiences ’ of elemental matter .” The goal of each electron is to increase its energy to the highest level of sustainable excitement ; that is, to contain the most information within the largest stable system of organization possible.

Ecstasy, says Charon, is the higher level of excitement felt when the electron fills one plane with photon energy, to the threshold at which it jumps to the next quantum level — ignites, until the entire system is fully energized.

Their combined mass is 1 / 6000th that of the Pluto – Charon system.