Space Time
Pluto's largest moon. Pluto and Charon form a tight binary system with a shared barycenter outside Pluto.
One record per aspect. The origin says what kind of thing each value is; the source says where it came from; the limit says what it cannot tell you.
Charon is placed by solving a Keplerian orbit around pluto at the simulation time (a = 19,596 km, e = 0.0002, i = 0°, period 6.4 d).
Charon: mean radius 606 km. These values are bundled with the object record and drive the rendered size.
Grayscale imagery with strongly varying resolution and baked-in shadows. The unobserved southern cap is uniform gray, with no invented terrain.
Grayscale imagery with strongly varying resolution and baked-in shadows. The unobserved southern cap is uniform gray, with no invented terrain.
The short description and the fact list are written by the Space Time authors for orientation. They are not quoted from a catalog field and carry no citation of their own.
| Dataset | Last refreshed | Horizon | Automated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planetary satellite mean elements | no snapshot date | Mean elements (a, e, i, period) for every known natural satellite | No, refreshed by hand npm run generate:moons |