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Pluto and Giant Moon Charon Imaged By Probe

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Michael500ca

32 Views • Aug 13, 2014

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NASA’s New Horizons snapped the big dwarf planet and its nearby moon for 5 days (July 19th-24th, 2014). Charon is 750 - 753 miles diameter, the largest known compared to the size of its host planet. Some consider Pluto-Charon a binary planet.

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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#pluto #charon #kuiper #belt #new #horizons #dwarf #planet #binary #probe

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