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Pluto’s tiny moon Styx was uncovered in a Hubble survey searching for potential hazards in advance of the July 2015 New Horizons spacecraft Pluto flyby. Styx band members are intrigued by the latest images of the Pluto system from New Horizons.
- Pluto Moons: Facts - NASA Science
Pluto's moon system – Charon, Nix, Hydra, Styx, and Kerberos...
- NASA’s New Horizons Spots Pluto’s Faintest Known Moons
For the first time, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has...
- Pluto Moons: Facts - NASA Science
Styx is a small natural satellite of Pluto whose discovery was announced on 11 July 2012. It was discovered by use of the Hubble Space Telescope, and is the smallest of the five known moons of Pluto.
3 de jun. de 2015 · Comprehensive analysis of data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows that two of Pluto’s moons, Nix and Hydra, wobble unpredictably. “Hubble has provided a new view of Pluto and its moons revealing a cosmic dance with a chaotic rhythm,” said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in ...
Pluto's four small circumbinary moons orbit Pluto at two to four times the distance of Charon, ranging from Styx at 42,700 kilometres to Hydra at 64,800 kilometres from the barycenter of the system. They have nearly circular prograde orbits in the same orbital plane as Charon.
23 de feb. de 2016 · The fifth moon, spotted in 2012, is named Styx after the river separating the living from the dead. It is estimated to be irregular in shape and 4.5 miles (7 km) wide.
