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of Pluto's moons passes between Pluto and the Sun. This occurs when one of the satellites' orbital nodes (the points where their orbits cross Pluto's ecliptic)...

the natural satellites of the other planets on the one hand, and artificial satellites on the other, the term natural satellite (using "natural" in a...

(KBOs) Plutinos Orcus, a dwarf planet Vanth Pluto, a dwarf planet Complete list of Pluto's natural satellites Charon Twotinos Cubewanos (classical objects)...

bodies will orbit around it. This is the case for Pluto and Charon, one of Pluto's natural satellites, as well as for many binary asteroids and binary...

waves created by airflow across Pluto's mountains. Pluto has five known natural satellites. The largest and closest to Pluto is Charon. First identified in...

/ˈʃærən/ SHAIR-ən), or (134340) Pluto I, is the largest of the five known natural satellites of the dwarf planet Pluto. It has a mean radius of 606 km...

Telescope, and is the smallest of the five known moons of Pluto. It was imaged along with Pluto and Pluto's other moons by the New Horizons spacecraft in July...

Kerberos is a small natural satellite of Pluto, about 19 km (12 mi) in its longest dimension. Kerberos is also the second-smallest moon of Pluto, after Styx....

the Orbits of Pluto's Three Moons". arXiv:0802.2939 [astro-ph]. Sharp, Tim (23 February 2016). "Pluto's Moons – Five Satellites of Pluto". space.com. Retrieved...

captured. Neptune also has seven known inner regular satellites, and eight outer irregular satellites. Pluto, a dwarf planet, has five moons. Its largest moon...

Nix is a natural satellite of Pluto, with a diameter of 49.8 km (30.9 mi) across its longest dimension. It was discovered along with Pluto's outermost...

irregular satellites, the general convention is to use names ending in "a" for prograde satellites, names ending in "e" for retrograde satellites, and names...

150 irregular satellites larger than 2.8 km (1.7 mi) in diameter, plus many hundreds more that are even smaller. The irregular satellites are classified...

seen if he had seen any satellites besides Titania and Oberon, did not correspond to any of Herschel's four additional satellites in orbital characteristics...

of the existence of other moons of Earth—that is, of one or more natural satellites with relatively stable orbits of Earth, other than the Moon—have existed...

Charon's orbit (see Pluto's natural satellites for details). The near resonances may be maintained by a 15% local fluctuation in the Pluto-Charon gravitational...

additional satellites. In 2003, Scott S. Sheppard and David C. Jewitt surveyed nearly the entire Hill sphere of Mars for irregular satellites. However,...

and Pluto are known to have accidental quasi-satellites. In the case of Pluto, the known accidental quasi-satellite, 15810 Arawn, is, like Pluto, a plutino...

The geology of Pluto consists of the characteristics of the surface, crust, and interior of Pluto. Because of Pluto's distance from Earth, in-depth study...

atmosphere and geology. Of the natural satellites in the Solar System's habitable zone – the Moon, two Martian satellites (though some estimates put those...