Looking at Charon, two for the price of one
Thu Jun 30, 2005 at 11:49 UTC
With Charon being large enough to be considered a dwarf planet in its own right were it in orbit around the Sun, it is no exaggeration to say that the New Horizons Pluto-Charon mission would very much provide a "two for the price of one" flyby reconnaissance mission.
Read about the discovery of Charon - and the mission team's plans to study Pluto's moon - in Alan Stern's July "PI Perspective" column.
