Size Of Pluto's Moon Charon Determined With Unprecedented Accuracy

01/09/2006 04:25AM

Size Of Pluto's Moon Charon Determined With Unprecedented Accuracy

MIT and Willams College Astronomers used the 8-meter Gemini South, the 6.5-meter Clay, the 2.5-meter du Pont, and the 0.8-meter Cerro Armazones telescopes in Chile to take advantage of a rare stellar occultation that permitted Charon's size to be determined with unprecedented accuracy -- 606 km ± 8 km.


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