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Pluto's Moon May Have Company

Target Name:  Pluto, Charon
Spacecraft:  Hubble Space Telescope
Produced by:  NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)
Copyright: Copyright Free
Date Released: 31 October 2005

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Hubble reveals two previously undetected satellites likely orbiting Pluto in the same plane as Pluto's moon, Charon. The two objects are estimated to have diameters between 40 and 125 miles (64 and 200 kilometers) and orbit roughly 27,000 miles (43,000 kilometers) from Pluto.

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