Waspie_Dwarf Posted June 24, 2015 #1 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Exactly 37 Years after Its Discovery, Pluto’s Moon Charon Is Being Revealed June 22, 2015In June 1978, U.S. Naval Observatory astronomer James Christy noticed something unusual. He was studying highly magnified photos of Pluto, and Pluto wasn’t round. A small bump marred one side of blurry Pluto. That bump turned out to be Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, whose discovery Christy (working with late colleague Robert Harrington), made on June 22, 1978. Like Pluto in 1930, Charon was found using photographic plates taken in Flagstaff, Arizona. Thirty-seven years later, Charon is about to be revealed by NASA’s New Horizons mission. As New Horizons draws closer by nearly a million miles a day, every observation of it brings new knowledge about this mysterious moon – a world far larger than even the largest asteroid, Ceres. Read more... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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