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NASA's New Horizons Focuses On Pluto's Largest Moon Charon

Posted by samzenpus on from the one-piece-of-silver dept.

MarkWhittington writes: New Horizons has already discovered much of what was previously unknown about Pluto, the dwarf planet that is the former ninth planet from the sun. NASA reported that the space probe has also uncovered some of the secrets of Pluto's largest moon, Charon. It has found indications of impact craters on the moon's gray surface as well as a chasm that seems to be bigger than the Grand Canyon on Earth. Charon has a diameter of just 1440 miles. By contrast, Earth has a diameter of 7918 miles.

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  1. Re:What is Pluto? by Mr+D+from+63 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or, Prince style: The dwarf planet formerly known as the ninth planet from the Sun.

    If there are dwarves on that planet, it makes sense that they'd have a prince.

  2. Re:What is Pluto? by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pretty hilarious that the summary goes to such lengths to describe Pluto for us, but the next article with drop some acronym like DPITMD*, and everyone but a few people who happen to be in a relevant industry will scratch their heads and think "okay, but wtf is DPITMD?"

    * Describing Pluto In Too Much Detail

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