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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)...38 KB (3,595 words) - 05:13, 3 September 2024
- 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...43 KB (3,569 words) - 14:28, 9 August 2024
- (KBOs) Plutinos Orcus, a dwarf planet Vanth Pluto, a dwarf planet Complete list of Pluto's natural satellites Charon Twotinos Cubewanos (classical objects)...6 KB (484 words) - 01:56, 14 August 2024
- 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...16 KB (1,521 words) - 16:00, 25 February 2024
- 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...164 KB (14,232 words) - 06:13, 30 August 2024
- Charon (moon) (redirect from Pluto Moon)/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...52 KB (5,311 words) - 08:04, 18 August 2024
- Styx (moon) (redirect from Pluto's fifth moon)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...20 KB (1,732 words) - 19:05, 9 July 2024
- Kerberos (moon) (redirect from Pluto's fourth moon)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....22 KB (1,934 words) - 15:06, 29 August 2024
- Hydra (moon) (redirect from Pluto III)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...27 KB (2,623 words) - 00:17, 22 August 2024
- captured. Neptune also has seven known inner regular satellites, and eight outer irregular satellites. Pluto, a dwarf planet, has five moons. Its largest moon...184 KB (5,690 words) - 10:01, 29 August 2024
- Nix (moon) (redirect from Pluto II)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...28 KB (2,613 words) - 00:17, 22 August 2024
- Moons of Neptune (redirect from Neptune's natural satellites)irregular satellites, the general convention is to use names ending in "a" for prograde satellites, names ending in "e" for retrograde satellites, and names...54 KB (4,583 words) - 08:08, 10 August 2024
- Moons of Saturn (redirect from Natural satellites of Saturn)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...169 KB (10,506 words) - 14:44, 7 September 2024
- Moons of Uranus (redirect from Uranus's natural satellites)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...60 KB (4,654 words) - 12:15, 5 September 2024
- Claimed moons of Earth (redirect from Earth's natural satellites)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...36 KB (3,942 words) - 11:23, 26 August 2024
- Orbital resonance (redirect from Satellite resonances)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...97 KB (10,252 words) - 00:57, 10 August 2024
- Moons of Mars (redirect from Mars's natural satellites)additional satellites. In 2003, Scott S. Sheppard and David C. Jewitt surveyed nearly the entire Hill sphere of Mars for irregular satellites. However,...43 KB (4,532 words) - 05:52, 7 September 2024
- 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...14 KB (1,588 words) - 14:15, 29 July 2024
- 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...33 KB (2,857 words) - 17:59, 3 August 2024
- atmosphere and geology. Of the natural satellites in the Solar System's habitable zone – the Moon, two Martian satellites (though some estimates put those...37 KB (3,721 words) - 01:09, 25 August 2024
- names to the two satellites of his planet, although these satellites (or moons), were not discovered until modern times. (The ten satellites of Saturn were
- dwarf planet Pluto is actually closer to the Sun, and us, than Neptune. This is due to the unusual elliptical (egg) shape of Pluto's orbit. National
- collapses to the planet's surface. In that way, Pluto acts like a comet. There are 146 known natural satellites (also called moons) in orbit around the planets