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Pluto's Moon May Have Company Target Name:   Pluto, Charon Spacecraft:   Hubble Space Telescope Produced by:   NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI) Copyright:  Copyright Free Date Released:  31 October 2005 Related Documents Possible New Moons Around Pluto Pluto Charon Download Options Name Type Width x Height Size plutomoons2.jpg JPEG 633 x 800 86K plutomoons2.jpg JPEG 2292 x 2898 332K plutomoons2.tif TIFF 2292 x 2898 1M Hubble reveals two previously undetected satellites likely orbiting Pluto in the same plane as Pluto's moon, Charon. The two objects are estimated to have diameters between 40 and 125 miles (64 and 200 kilometers) and orbit roughly 27,000 miles (43,000 kilometers) from Pluto.

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