Charon is half the size of Pluto. The satellite is the closest in size to its parent of all the moon-planet pairs in our solar system. The moon is so hefty that it influences Pluto’s spin.
and Vesta as full-fledged members of our planetary system. Today, when tens of thousands of minor planets have been discovered (most residing in an "asteroid belt" between Mars and Pluto), not ...
Famously, Pluto no longer met the criteria ... but it's an attempt to match the complicated nature of our unfolding knowledge of the solar system. We live in an active, dynamic system, where ...
Pluto's most prominent feature is a great ... superionic ice may turn out to be the most common form of water in our Solar System. As we get closer to the Sun, ice begins to look more familiar.
Narrator: Serious scientists, like myself, believe our solar system was formed by the collapse ... moons and dwarf planets such as Pluto. What's this? Oh noooo… Stella: You should know where ...