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  • Pluto's Moons: A Guide to Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos & Hydra
    Pluto has five known moons and no rings.

    Here are the moons of Pluto, in order of increasing distance from Pluto:

    * Charon: The largest of Pluto's moons, and so large that it is sometimes considered a binary system with Pluto.

    * Styx: A small, irregularly shaped moon.

    * Nix: Another small, irregularly shaped moon.

    * Kerberos: A small, irregularly shaped moon with an elongated shape.

    * Hydra: The second-largest moon of Pluto, also irregularly shaped.

    While Pluto itself has no rings, its largest moon, Charon, is thought to be surrounded by a faint ring of dust. This ring is theorized to be composed of dust kicked up by micrometeoroid impacts on Charon's surface.

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