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To: Alas Babylon!
Side by side, relative size:

Charon's a monster of a big moon compared to Pluto!

8 posted on 07/18/2015 7:00:22 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: Alas Babylon!

Charon’s a monster of a big moon compared to Pluto!

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The Earth’s moon is also considered large compared to the Earth and very close as is Charon to Pluto. Some have said the Earth and Moon should be called a binary planet.

Both systems were probably created by impact events.


30 posted on 07/19/2015 4:13:22 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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