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Charon
  1. The aged ferryman (the son of Erebus and Nyx) who (in Greek mythology) conveys the souls of the newly dead across the river Acheron to the gates of the underworld (Hades). He would only allow on his boat those who had received the rites of burial and whose journey had been pre-paid with a coin left under their tongue. Those who could not pay had to wander the banks of Acheron for 100 years.

  2. The largest moon of the dwarf planet Pluto. The other known moons of Pluto are Nix, Hydra and S/2011 P 1. Charon has a diameter of 790 miles and orbits Pluto at a distance of 12,200 miles in approximately 6.4 days. Charon was discovered in 1978 by James Christy and is named after [1] but also because the first syllable is the nickname of his wife, Charlene.

    To an observer (in the appropriate hemisphere) on the surface of Pluto, Charon would remain fixed in the sky.