Charon
Pluto 901 Charon
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Physical data
- Mean radius
- 606 km
- GM
- 106.1 km³/s²
- Density
- 1.853 g/cm³
Source:NASA JPL Solar System Dynamics · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
Orbit
- Semi-major axis
- 19,600 km
- Eccentricity
- 0
- Inclination
- 0°
- Orbital period
- 6.3872 days
- Retrograde
- No
Source:NASA JPL Solar System Dynamics · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
Related
Parent body
In everyday life
- Its diameter is about 10% of Earth's (radius 606 km ÷ Earth's 6,371 km).
- One orbit takes about 6.4 Earth days.
- About 19,600 km from Pluto on average — 49 drives along the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.