Charon
Appearance
![]() Charon, aslii rang me, jiske New Horizons spacecraft July 2015 me utaris rahaa. | |
Discovery | |
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Discovered by | James W. Christy |
Discovery date | June 22, 1978 |
Designations | |
Designation | Pluto I[1] |
Pronunciation | /ˈkɛərɒn, -ən/ KAIR-on-,_--ən or /ˈʃærən/ SHARR-ənThe former is the anglicized pronunciation of the, the latter is the discoverer's pronunciation. |
Named after | Discoverer's wife, Charlene, and Χάρων Kharōn |
S/1978 P 1 | |
Adjectives | Charonian, from the alternative Latin oblique form </ref>[2][3] Charontian, -eanFrom the Latin oblique form (cf. Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese Caronte)[4][5] Charonean[note 1][6] |
Orbital characteristics | |
Epoch 2452600.5 (2002 Nov 22) | |
Periapsis | 19 592.61 km |
Apoapsis | 19 598.92 km |
19595.764+0.007 −0.008 km (planetocentric) 17181.0 km (barycentric) | |
Eccentricity | 0.000161 |
6.387221+0.000005 −0.000003 d (6 d, 9 h, 17 m, 35.89 ± 0.35 s) | |
Average orbital speed | 0.21 km/s |
Inclination | 0.080° (to Pluto's equator) 119.591°±0.014° (to Pluto's orbit) 112.783°±0.014° (to the ecliptic) |
223.046°±0.014° (to vernal equinox) | |
Satellite of | Pluto |
Physical characteristics | |
606.0±0.5 km (0.095 Earths, 0.51 Plutos) | |
Flattening | <0.5% |
4.6×106 km2 (0.0090 Earths) | |
Volume | (9.32±0.14)×108 km3 (0.00086 Earths) |
Mass | (1.5897±0.0045)×1021 kg (2.66×10−4 Earths) (12.2% of Pluto) |
Mean density | 1.705±0.006 g/cm3 |
0.288 m/s2 | |
0.59 km/s 0.37 mi/s | |
synchronous | |
Albedo | ~0.38 (locally 0.20–0.73) 0.25 ± 0.03 Bond[7] |
Temperature | −220 °C (53 K) |
16.8[8] | |
1[9] | |
55 milli-arcsec |
Charon (/ˈkɛərɒn, -ən/ KAIR-on-,_--ən or /ˈʃærən/ SHARR-ən),, jiske formal designation (134340) Pluto I hae, paanch bauna grah Yamgrah ke chaand me se sab se barraa hae. Iske mean radius 606 km (377 mi) hae. Charon 6th sab se barraa trans-Neptunian object Yamgrah ke baad, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, aur Gonggong.[10] Iske 1978 me United States Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C. me, photographic plates se kaam me laae ke United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station (NOFS) me.
Saur mandal (Solar System)
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Suraj • Heliosphere |
Grah (Planets) ☾ = Chaand ∅ = rings |
Budhgrah (Mercury) | Sukhgrah (Venus) | Dunia (Earth) ☾ | Mangalgrah (Mars) ☾ | ||
Brahaspati (Jupiter) ☾ ∅ | Sanigrah (Saturn) ☾ ∅ | Arungrah (Uranus) ☾ ∅ | Varungrah (Neptune) ☾ ∅ | ||||
Bauna grah (Dwarf planet) |
Ceres | Pluto ☾ | Haumea ☾ | Makemake | |||
Eris ☾ | |||||||
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Chhota tara (Asteroid) (minor planets) |
Groups and families: Vulcanoids · Near-Earth asteroids · Asteroid belt Jupiter Trojans · Centaurs · Neptune Trojans · Asteroid moons · Meteoroids · Pallas · Juno · Vesta · Hygiea · | |||||
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Trans- Neptunians |
Kuiper belt – Plutinos: Orcus · Ixion – Cubewanos: Varuna · Quaoar · Huya | ||||||
Scattered disc: Sedna | |||||||
Jhaarru | Lists of periodic and non-periodic comets Damocloids · Hills baadal · Oort baadal | ||||||
See also the list of solar system objects |
- ↑ Blue, Jennifer (November 9, 2009). "Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature". IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN). Retrieved February 24, 2010.
- ↑ Russell, C. T., ed. (2009) (in en). New Horizons: Reconnaissance of the Pluto-Charon System and the Kuiper Belt. New York, NY: Springer New York. pp. 96. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-89518-5. ISBN 978-0-387-89517-8. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-0-387-89518-5.
- ↑ Bosher, Kathryn, ed. (2016). Theater outside Athens: drama in Greek Sicily and South Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 100, 104–105. ISBN 978-1-107-52750-8.
- ↑ Wade, Gerald Edward, ed. (1979) (in en, es). Studies in honor of Gerald E. Wade. Studia humanitatis. Madrid: J. Porrúa Turanzas. pp. 125–126. ISBN 978-84-7317-086-4.
- ↑ Herbert, William (1838) (in en). Attila, King of the Huns. Henry G. Bohn. pp. 48. https://books.google.com/books?id=mFiEy0DIFwQC.
- ↑ Kontou, Tatiana (2009) (in en). Spiritualism and Women's Writing: From the Fin de Siècle to the Neo-Victorian. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 60. ISBN 978-1-349-29915-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=WfKTnQAACAAJ.
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ "Classic Satellites of the Solar System". Observatorio ARVAL. April 15, 2007. Archived from the original on July 31, 2010. Retrieved October 19, 2007.
- ↑ Jewitt, David (June 2008). "The 1000 km Scale KBOs". Institute for Astronomy (UH). Retrieved June 13, 2008.
- ↑ "Trans-Neptunian objects".
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