Moons of Pluto
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The Moons of Pluto are moons which orbit the dwarf planet Pluto. There are five moons orbiting the planet in total. The first one discovered is Charon which is almost the size of Pluto, second being Nix, the third being Hydra a fourth unnamed moon called S/2011 P 1 discovered in 2011 and a fifth moon called S/2012 P 1 which is the most recently discovered moon of pluto, it was discovered in 2012.
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The first and largest moon discovered orbiting around Pluto was Charon, Charon was discovered on June 22 1978 by James Christy. In May 2005, the Hubble Space Telescope discovered two smaller moons which were named Nix and Hydra. [1] An additional two much smaller moons which remain unnamed were discovered in 2011 and 2012. [2] [3]
