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

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

* 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.

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.

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

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

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.

Charon appeared in Dungeon # 149 ( August 2007 ), and the dergholoth appeared in Dungeon # 150 ( September 2007 ).

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.

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.

* 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.

The Earth's Moon and possibly Charon are exceptions among large bodies in that they are believed to have originated by the collision of two large proto-planetary objects ( see the giant impact hypothesis ).

The two poems quoted by Aristotle help to date the poet's life ( assuming of course that Charon and the unnamed father are speaking about events that Archilochus had experienced himself ).

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 ).

Close binaries fit this model ( e. g. Pluto – Charon ).

A unique is described as a third reality created out of the social reality, a private interpretation of the reality that is shown to the person by others ( Charon, 2007 ).

The Code of Charon strictly prohibits use of Embody ( except by high-level Hierarchs acting in the interests of Stygia, of course ).

* 25 February-Jean Emile Charon, nuclear physicist ( died 1998 ).

* 27 February-Jacques Charon, actor and film director ( died 1975 ).

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 ).

* Charon: Sermons from the Styx: a Posthumous Work by Frederick the Great ( 1886 ).

Singer Juha-Pekka Leppäluoto left in the autumn of 2003 to concentrate on his work with Charon ( band ).

July 9, 2009 at a meeting of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church it was decided to open in Kiev the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Desyatynnyi monastery and appoint as governor Gideon Archimandrite ( Charon ).

Armed with this new ability ; the knowledge that Jad Takarty ( a friend of hers since childhood ) is alive ; and that Meridian is relatively safe, she flies off to join Danik and the other Sigil-Bearers in their fight against Charon ( see Negation War ).

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 ).

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 ).

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