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  • Moons of Pluto
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  • The Plutonian system has not been visited by spacecraft, but a flyby by the New Horizons mission is due in July 2015.
  • The dwarf planet Pluto has five moons down to a detection limit of about 1 km in diameter. In order of distance from Pluto, they are Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra. Charon, the largest of the five moons, is mutually tidally locked with Pluto, and is massive enough that Pluto–Charon is sometimes considered a double dwarf planet.
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  • Configurations of Hydra , Nix and Styx over one quarter of the cycle of their mutual orbital resonance. Movements are counterclockwise and orbits completed are tallied at upper right of diagrams .
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  • Pluto-Charon Eclipse .png
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  • The Plutonian system has not been visited by spacecraft, but a flyby by the New Horizons mission is due in July 2015.
  • The dwarf planet Pluto has five moons down to a detection limit of about 1 km in diameter. In order of distance from Pluto, they are Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra. Charon, the largest of the five moons, is mutually tidally locked with Pluto, and is massive enough that Pluto–Charon is sometimes considered a double dwarf planet.