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==External links== {{Commons category|Charon (moon)}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20141008221417/http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Plu_Charon Charon Profile] at [http://solarsystem.nasa.gov NASA's Solar System Exploration site] * {{cite journal |bibcode=1978AJ.....83.1005C |title=The satellite of Pluto |journal=Astronomical Journal |volume=83 |pages=1005 |last1=Christy |first1=J. W |last2=Harrington |first2=R. S |s2cid=120501620 |year=1978 |doi=10.1086/112284}} * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4230918.stm Hubble reveals new map of Pluto], [[BBC]] News, September 12, 2005 * {{Cite journal |arxiv=astro-ph/0602082 |last1=Person |first1=M. J |title=Charon's radius and density from the combined data sets of the 2005 July 11 occultation |journal=The Astronomical Journal |volume=132 |issue=4 |pages=1575β1580 |last2=Elliot |first2=J. L |last3=Gulbis |first3=A. A. S |last4=Pasachoff |first4=J. M |last5=Babcock |first5=B. A |last6=Souza |first6=S. P |last7=Gangestad |first7=J |year=2006 |doi=10.1086/507330|bibcode=2006AJ....132.1575P |s2cid=6169239 }} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090320174750/http://spacescience.arc.nasa.gov/agu/abstracts/Deschetal.pdf Cryovolcanism on Charon and other Kuiper Belt Objects] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20131208200701/http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/20130710.php ''New Horizons'' Camera Spots Pluto's Largest Moon β July 10, 2013] * [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/charon-at-40-four-decades-of-discovery-on-pluto-s-largest-moon 40th anniversary NASA video] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220511150127/https://www.nasa.gov/feature/charon-at-40-four-decades-of-discovery-on-pluto-s-largest-moon/ |date=May 11, 2022 }} describing the discovery and naming of Charon (June 22, 2018) * NASA CGI [http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20170714-2 video] of Charon flyover (July 14, 2017) * [https://www.flickr.com/photos/136797589@N04/36101560426/ CGI video] simulation of rotating Charon by SeΓ‘n Doran (see [https://www.flickr.com/photos/136797589@N04/albums/72157686474817595 album] for more) * [https://www.google.com/maps/space/charon/@23.0752291,9.3670842,8033611m/data=!3m1!1e3 Google Charon 3D], interactive map of the moon * {{cite web |url=http://livestream.com/viewnow/LPSC2016 |title=2016 Lunar & Planetary Science Conference by National Institute of Aerospace |access-date=April 6, 2016 |archive-date=June 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623004727/https://livestream.com/viewnow/LPSC2016 |url-status=dead }} * [https://gravitysimulator.org/solar-system/the-plutonian-system Interactive 3D gravity simulation of Pluto and Charon in addition to Pluto's four other moons Styx, Kerberos, Hydra and Nix] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611221454/https://gravitysimulator.org/solar-system/the-plutonian-system/ |date=June 11, 2020 }} {{Charon (moon)|state=uncollapsed}} {{Moons of dwarf planets}} {{Solar System moons (compact)}} {{Trans-Neptunian objects navbox}} {{Dwarf planets}} {{Authority control}} {{Portal bar|Astronomy|Stars|Spaceflight|Outer space|Solar System}} [[Category:Charon (moon)| ]] [[Category:Moons of Pluto]] [[Category:Trans-Neptunian satellites]] [[Category:Articles containing video clips]] [[Category:Objects observed by stellar occultation|M]] [[Category:Planetary-mass satellites]] [[Category:Moons with a prograde orbit]] [[Category:Possible dwarf planets]]
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