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

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

* 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.

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.

** Charon, a satellite of Pluto, is discovered.

An astronomical example is Pluto's moon Charon.

* 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.

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.

Usually, at any given time only the satellite is tidally locked around the larger body, but if the difference in mass between the two bodies and their physical separation is small, each may be tidally locked to the other, as is the case between Pluto and Charon.

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.

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

* Charon ( Pluto is itself locked to Charon )

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.

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.

Flashing eyes may indicate the anger or irascibility of Charon as he is often characterized in literature, but the etymology is not certain.

Charon is depicted frequently in the art of ancient Greece.

On later vases, Charon is given a more “ kindly and refined ” demeanor.

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.

The name " cubewano " derives from the first trans-Neptunian object ( TNO ) found after Pluto and Charon,.

Aside from Pluto itself and Charon, the first plutino, 1993 RO, was discovered on September 16, 1993.

*, the prototype cubewano, the first Kuiper belt object discovered after Pluto and Charon.

*, the first binary Kuiper belt object discovered after Pluto and Charon.

The arcanadaemon, Charon ( The Boatman of the Lower Planes ), the charonadaemon, the derghodaemon, the hydrodaemon, the Oinodaemon ( Anthraxus ), the piscodaemon, the ultrodaemon, and the yagnodaemon first appeared in the original Monster Manual II ( 1983 ).

Through Emanzipation, Charon released their first two full-length albums Sorrowburn and Tearstained in 1998 and 2000 respectively.

Andersson calculated the first observable transits of Pluto and Charon in the early 1980s, but did not live to see them.

It was the first radio telescope to resolve Pluto and Charon as separate

The philosopher quoted two fragments as examples of an author speaking in somebody else's voice: in one, an unnamed father commenting on a recent eclipse of the sun and, in the other, a carpenter named Charon, expressing his indifference to the wealth of Gyges, the king of Lydia.

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

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.

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.

A duplicitous goddess of House Sinister named Evinlea had been kidnapped and taken to the Negation universe to be studied by that realm's mad god, Charon.

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.

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

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

In the catabasis mytheme, heroes — such as Heracles, Orpheus, Aeneas, Dante, Dionysus and Psyche — journey to the underworld and return, still alive, conveyed by the boat of Charon.

In the 14th century, Dante Alighieri described Charon in his Divine Comedy, drawing from Virgil's depiction in Aeneid 6.

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

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.

Along the way Allen meets a number of his Californian acquaintances and notable people from history ( e. g. Epictetus, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Bob Ford, L Ron Hubbard, Henry VIII of England, Vlad Tepes, Aimee Semple McPherson, William M. Tweed, Al Capone ) and from classical mythology ( e. g. Hector, Aeneas, Charon, Minos, Phlegyas, Geryon ).

Captain Anderson ( Tony Todd ) of the Earthforce destroyer Charon, arrives and meets with Sheridan and Dureena ; all have been alerted to each other by Galen.