Charon is the largest of Pluto's five moons, so large relative to Pluto that the two are mutually tidally locked, always presenting the same faces to each other.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administrationscience.nasa.gov, Pluto Moons: Charon
The same surfaces of Charon and Pluto always face each other, a phenomenon called mutual tidal locking.
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Charon is the largest of Pluto's five moons, so large relative to Pluto that the two are mutually tidally locked, always presenting the same faces to each other.
Associated With: Pluto, Pluto Facts, Moons section, double planet sentence
Pluto and Charon are often referred to as a double planet.
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In Group: Moons of Pluto, Lead: kind of objectQuote, In Group: Moons of Pluto, Lead: kind of object
is the largest of the five known natural satellites of the dwarf planet Pluto
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