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

This has made Pluto also tidally locked to Charon.

Other Latin authors also describe Charon, among them Seneca in his tragedy Hercules Furens, where Charon is described in verses 762-777 as an old man clad in foul garb, with haggard cheeks and an unkempt beard, a fierce ferryman who guides his craft with a long pole.

Ancient Greek literary sources — such as Pindar, Aeschylus, Euripides, Plato, and Callimachus — also place Charon on the Acheron.

Many of Charun's other presumed assistants appear in the Tomb of the Blue Demons, which is also the home of the only Etruscan rendering of the aforementioned ferry of Charon.

He also appeared in Peter Shaffer ’ s The Royal Hunt of the Sun ( with Robert Stephens ), Charley's Aunt, Tom Stoppard ’ s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Congreve's The Way of the World, Georges Feydeau ’ s A Flea In Her Ear ( directed by Jacques Charon of the Comédie Française ), The Crucible, Luigi Pirandello's The Rules Of The Game, Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot and George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession.

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.

Wraith: The Oblivion primarily takes place in the Deadlands of the western world, which is ruled by the Empire of Stygia ( also called the Dark Kingdom of Iron ), founded by the legendary Charon.

On 3 June 1753 the society received royal sanction, which also transferred to them the rights and privileges previously granted by letters patent in 1694 to the Frères Hospitaliers de la Croix et de Saint-Joseph, known after their founder as the Frères Charon.

At that time they also took over the work of the bankrupt Frères Charon at the Hôpital Général de Montréal located outside the city walls.

The Time Lords had also used their time travel to retroactively destroy the Charon race before it even existed.

Charon also created vastly powerful creatures called Lawbringers.

" The Sails of Charon " was also used in the videogame Gran Turismo 5.

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

300 centuries later, humanity attempted a technology-based ' transition ' initiated by Robert Charon and Nathan Appolyon ; rather than a higher plane of existence, this threw most of humanity into the universe known as the Negation.

The war would end when they lure Charon and Danik to that hellish corner of Negation Space known as Perdition ( yes, the same Perdition from ROUTE 666 ).

They think, they know, and ( they ) carry Spirit in the Universe .” Charon chooses to call these individual beings of intelligence, “ eons .” They are otherwise known as electrons.

The newly-dead would be ferried across the Acheron by Charon in order to enter the Underworld.

He would later become the villainous 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.

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

Literally: Look at the time Charon chose to take me, now that the branches are flowering, and the earth sends forth grass ( Greek: Για δες καιρό που διάλεξε ο Χάρος να με πάρει, τώρα π ' ανθίζουν τα κλαριά και βγάνει η γης χορτάρι-Ya thes kero pou dialexe o Haros na me parei, tora p ' anthizoun ta klaria kai vganei i yis hortari ).

The team sneaks out of Babylon 5 during the night on the Charon, and they travel to the shipyards and take the Excalibur and Victory out to visit Daltron 7.

If the soul paid a toll, Charon ferried it across the river.

When both the hero and his partners are dead, the game over screen consists of the underworld ferryman Charon picking up a soul.

They set off Appolyon's " soul bomb ", which turns Charon and Danik back into ordinary humans.

The Epicureans believed that the soul was a thin tissue of atoms that dissipated into the cosmos upon death, and that conventional mythological views of the afterlife and its geography and inhabitants were inane fictions — a view encapsulated by a funeral inscription at Rome that reads: Do not go forth nor pass along without reading me ; but stop, listen to me and do not leave before you have been instructed: there is no crossing ferry to Hades, nor Charon the ferryman, nor Aeacus holding the keys, nor the dog Cerberus.

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

The ferryman Charon is believed to have transported the souls of the newly dead across this river into the underworld, though in the original Greek and Roman sources, as well as in Dante, it was the river Acheron that Charon plied.

The Charon zoetrope stands at 32 feet high, weighs 8 tons and features twenty rowing skeleton figures representing the mythological character, Charon, who carries souls of the newly deceased across the river Styx.

Following Greek mythology, Charon ferries souls across this river to Hell.

In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon ( or ; Greek Χάρων ) is the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead.

Tolls are mentioned in Greek mythology where Charon the ferryman charged a toll to carry the dead across the rivers Acheron and Styx to Hades.

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

In the background, the ferryman Charon rows the dead across the river in his boat.

When Dionysus arrives at the lake, Charon ferries him across.

The entry into the world of the dead reflects Greek mythology when an aged boatman ( not named in the novel, but presumably representing Charon ) ferries souls across a river to a dark, joyless realm where the many worlds ' dead are tormented by harpies.

Back on Hell and now in control of the State Security facilities, Honor's party travels across the inhospitable planet and helps the prisoners escape from Camp Charon.

The custom was explained by the myth of Charon, the ferryman who conveyed the souls of the newly dead across the water — a lake, river, or swamp — that separated the world of the living from the underworld.

Cthonic Zeus was called Eubuleus, " the good councelor ", and the ferryman of the river of the underworld Charon, " glad ".

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

Roman poets, including Propertius, Ovid, and Statius, name the river as the Styx, perhaps following the geography of Virgil ’ s underworld in the Aeneid, where Charon is associated with both rivers.

The memorial " Passage over the Styx " by Gerhard Marcks is in the center and shows how Charon ferries a young couple, a mother with her child, a man and a desperate person over the river Styx.

On the journey he meets the ferryman ( similar to Charon ), a girl, Tuonen tytti, or Tuonen piika ( Death's maid ), who takes him over the river of Tuoni.

Extensive weathering produced the tors of the Charon Gardens region and the " river " of boulders that descends the west slope of Mount Scott.

Image: Kmakovs 178. jpg | Charon transfers the souls of deads over the Stix river, 1861

In the pseudepigraphical Apocalypse of Zephaniah the river has a ferryman equivalent to Charon in Greek myth, but replaced by an angel.