Editing Charon

{| cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="margin:25px 0 0 10px; border:3px solid lightsteelblue;width:250px; font-size:90%; font-family:'Arial','Helvetica'; float: right; clear: right;"Pluto in Orbiter"
!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2" align="center" |Charon
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|colspan="2" align="center"|[[Image:Charon-nhplutoenc150703-Orbiter2016D3D9.jpg|Charon|240px]]
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|colspan="2" align="center"|'''Charon-nhplutoenc150703-Orbiter2016D3D9.jpg|<center>Pluto from ''Pluto and Moons.zip'' and ''New Horizons Pluto Encounter.zip'' in Orbiter 2016 with D3D9</center>'''
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Designation
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|Name||align="right"|Charon
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|width="30%"|Reference body||align="right" width="30%"|134340 Pluto
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|width="30%"|Number of satellites||align="right" width="30%"|
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Planetary mean orbits
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|width="30%"|Epoch||align="right" width="50%"|2002.88980151
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|width="30%"|Semimajor axis (a)||align="right" width="50%"|19571421.7074156 m
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|width="30%"|Eccentricity (e)||align="right" width="30%"|0.0000373396813869476
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|width="30%"|Inclination (i)||align="right" width="30%"|0° <br> (0 radian)
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|width="30%"|Longitude of the ascending node (LAN, ☊)||align="right" width="30%"|219.363153172047° <br> (3.82860928040886 radian)
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|width="30%"|Longitude of periapsis (ϖ)||align="right" width="30%"|136.954° <br> (2.39029822377631 radian)
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|width="30%"|Mean longitude (L)||align="right" width="30%"|34.9° <br> (0.60911990894602 radian)
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Selected physical parameters
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|width="30%"|Mean radius||align="right" width="30%"|606316.642534735 m
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|width="30%"|Mass||align="right" width="30%"|1.51311205×10<sup>21</sup> kg
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|width="30%"|Sidereal rotation period||align="right" width="30%"|551856.709233070848 sec (6.38723 hours)
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|width="30%"|SidRotOffset||align="right" width="30%"|3.14159265358979324
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|width="30%"|Obliquity||align="right" width="30%"|96.145° (1.67804680932995 radian)
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|width="30%"|LAN||align="right" width="30%"|43.046° (0.7512944298135 radian)
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|width="30%"|Note||align="right" width="30%"|*Elements given are from Charon.cfg (PlutoandMoons.zip)
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Charon is the largest natural satellite of [[Pluto]]. Its radius is about half that of Pluto, and their barycentre lies outside both objects. This is a common definition of a binary object, leading some astronomers to consider them a [[w:Double planet|double dwarf planet]].

Charon was discovered in 1978 by [[w:James W. Christy|James W Christy]].

From the discovery of [[Nix]] and [[Hydra]], it was possible to estimate Charon's mass as roughly 10% that of Pluto. This implies it's approximately 45% ice, thought mostly to be water ice.

== Charon in Orbiter ==
Charon was introduced to Orbiter with the release of ''pluto_pack.zip'' in July 2004.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|colspan="8"|<center>'''Orbiter versions and add-ons which include Charon'''</center>
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!Add-on!!Source!!Version!!Author!!Type!!Release Date!!Compatibility!!Wiki article
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|[https://www.orbiter-forum.com/resources/new-horizons-pluto-encounter.3045/ New Horizons Pluto Encounter]||O-F Resources||2015-07-09||BrianJ||Scenarios||9 July 2015||||
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|[https://www.orbiter-forum.com/resources/celestial-bodies-motion-part-2-4-v2-0-0.295/ Celestial Bodies Motion - Part 2/4 - v2.0.0]||O-F Resources||v2.0.0||cristiapi||Scenery||2 July 2015||*config and module only||
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|[https://www.orbiter-forum.com/resources/pluto-and-moons.978/ Pluto and Moons]||O-F Resources||2010-05-13||Piper||Scenery||13 May 2010||||
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|[https://www.orbiter-forum.com/resources/orbital-correction-for-pluto-and-moons.1388/ Orbital correction for Pluto and moons]||O-F Resources||2009-11-25||Unknown OHM Addon Developer||Scenery||25 November 2009||||
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|[https://www.orbiter-forum.com/resources/pluto.281/ Pluto]||O-F Resources||2006-11-13||Unknown OHM Addon Developer||Scenery||13 November 2006||||
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|[https://www.orbiter-forum.com/resources/pluto-charon-v2-0.230/ Pluto-Charon v2.0]||O-F Resources||2005-05-09||Nighthawke||Scenery||10 May 2005||Orbiter 2005||
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|[https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=&Name=&FileName=pluto_pack.zip&Author=&CatID=root Pluto Pack]||AVSIM||||CharlotMan||Scenery||17 July 2004||||
|}

== Gallery ==
<gallery widths="100" heights="100">
Charon-plutopackzip-Orbiter2003P2.jpg|<center>Charon from ''pluto_pack.zip'' in Orbiter 2003P2</center>
Charon-PlutoCharonv20zip-Orbiter2005P1.jpg|<center>Charon from ''Pluto-Charon_v2.0.zip'' in Orbiter 2005P1</center>
Charon-Plutozip-Orbiter2006P1.jpg|<center>Charon from ''Pluto.zip'' in Orbiter 2006P1</center>
Charon-PlutoandMoonsZip-Orbiter2006P1.jpg|<center>Charon from ''PlutoandMoons.zip'' in Orbiter 2006P1</center>
Charon-nhplutoenc150703-Orbiter2016D3D9.jpg|<center>Charon from ''Pluto and Moons.zip'' and ''New Horizons Pluto Encounter.zip'' in Orbiter 2016 with D3D9</center>
Charon in True Color - High-Res.jpg|<center>Charon imaged by [[w:New Horizons|New Horizons spacecraft]] in July 2015<br>from Wikimedia Commons</center>
First Color Animated Images show Pluto and its Moon Charon.gif|<center>first color animation of the orbits of Pluto and Charon<br>from Wikimedia Commons</center>
</gallery>

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