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# Pluto
"Pluto’s “heart” now bears the name of pioneering American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930. And a crater on Pluto is now officially named after Venetia Burney, the British schoolgirl who in 1930 suggested the name “Pluto,” Roman god of the underworld, for Tombaugh’s newly-discovered planet."
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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-features-given-first-official-names

# System

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https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110722.html

## <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_(moon)">Nix</a>

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"Detailed images of the moon have revealed at least 6 impact craters on it, the largest of which is about 15 km across."

## <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(moon)">Hydra</a>

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"Like Saturn's moon Hyperion, Nix, and the other small moons of Pluto, Hydra rotates chaotically; its day length and rotational axis vary quickly over astronomical timescales, to the point that it regularly flips over. This is largely due to the aforementioned fluctuation of the Pluto–Charon gravitational field, as well as its irregular shape. "

## <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)">Charon</a>
"In <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/science/pluto-moon-charon.html">September 2016</a>, astronomers announced that the reddish-brown cap of the north pole of Charon is composed of tholins, organic macromolecules that may be essential ingredients of life, and produced from methane, nitrogen and related gases released from the atmosphere of Pluto and transferred over about 19,000 km (12,000 mi) distance to the orbiting moon."

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"Charon, taken by New Horizons late on 13 July 2015."


## <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(moon)">Kerberos</a> (P4)
Orbital period: 32 days "Kerberos is a small natural satellite of Pluto, about 12 km in its longest dimension. It was the fourth moon of Pluto to be discovered and its existence was announced on 20 July 2011." 

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"The New Horizons spacecraft took images of Kerberos during its flyby of the Pluto system on 14 July 2015. Three months later, on 22 October, the first image of the moon was published. It is the last moon to have its picture released."
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/last-of-pluto-s-moons-mysterious-kerberos-revealed-by-new-horizons

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# There is a lot more out there

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