Charon (muin)
Appearance
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Discovery | |
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Discovered bi | James W. Christy |
Discovery date | Juin 22, 1978 |
Designations | |
Pronunciation | /ˈʃærən/ or /ˈkɛərən/[note 1] |
Named after | Charon |
(340) Pluto I 134[1] | |
Adjectives | Charonian |
Orbital chairactereestics [3] | |
Epoch 452600.5 2 | |
536±4 km tae seestem barycenter, 17571±4 km tae the center ofPluto 19 | |
Eccentricity | 0.00[2] |
2304±0.0000011 d 6.387 (6 d, 9 h, 17 m, 36.7 ± 0.1 s) | |
Average orbital speed | 0.21 km/s[note 2] |
Inclination | 0.001° (tae Pluto's equator) ±0.014° 119.591° (tae Pluto's orbit) ±0.014° 112.783° (tae the ecliptic) |
±0.014° 223.046° (tae vernal equinox) | |
Satellite o | Pluto |
Pheesical chairacteristics | |
Mean radius | ±1.5 km 603.5[4] (0.095 Earths) |
Surface area | ×106 km2 4.58 |
Vollum | ×108 km3 9.027 () 0.0008 Earths[5] |
Mass | ±0.06)×1021 kg (1.52[3] (×10−4 Earths) 2.54 (11.6% of Pluto) |
Mean density | ±0.06 g/cm3 1.65[3] |
m/s2 0.278 | |
0.580 km/s 0.36 mi/s | |
synchronous | |
zero? | |
Albedo | from 0.36 to 0.39 |
Temperatur | ( −220 °CK) 53 |
16.8[6] | |
1[7] | |
55 milli-arcsec[8] |
Charon, cried (134340) Pluto I an aw,[1] is the lairgest satellite o the dwarf planet Pluto.
Notes
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ In US dictionary transcription, US dict: shăr′·ən, kār′·ən, the latter per the anglicised pronunciation o the [Χάρων] error: {{lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help).
- ↑ Calculatit on the basis o ither parameters.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ a b Jennifer Blue (9 November 2009). "Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature". IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN). Retrieved 24 Februar 2010.
- ↑ M. Buie; et al. (2012). "The Orbit of Charon is Circular". The Astronomical Journal. 144: 15. Bibcode:2012AJ....144...15B. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/144/1/15.
- ↑ a b c
doi: 10.1086/504422
This citation will be automatically completed in the next few minutes. You can jump the queue or expand by hand. a, i, e per JPL (site updated 2008 Aug 25) - ↑ B. Sicardy; et al. (2006). "Charon's size and an upper limit on its atmosphere from a stellar occultation". Nature. 439 (7072): 52–4. Bibcode:2006Natur.439...52S. doi:10.1038/nature04351. PMID 16397493.
- ↑ Volume of a sphere with radius 603.5 km = 704853.6 km3 / 902083207317374 km3 1 = ×10−4 = 8.484 Earth 0.000
- ↑ "Classic Satellites of the Solar System". Observatorio ARVAL. Retrieved 19 October 2007.
- ↑ David Jewitt (Juin 2008). "The 1000 km Scale KBOs". Institute for Astronomy (UH). Retrieved 13 Juin 2008.
- ↑ "Stellar occultation allows VLT to determine Charon's size and to put upper limit on its atmosphere". ESO 02/06 – Science Release. 4 Januar 2006. Archived frae the original on 18 Januar 2006. Retrieved 19 October 2007.
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