Earlier this summer marked the 40th Anniversary of Charon’s discovery. Pluto’s binary companion Charon was discovered in 1978 by Randy Monroe’s stepfather Jim Christy; while working for the US Naval Observatory. He named the moon or actually planet, due to fact that the barycenter or…
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