What is Moons of Pluto?
[[File:Pluto system 2006.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Image taken from the Hubble Telescope showing Pluto and its three largest moons.]] The '''moons of Pluto''' are [[Satellite (natural)|moons]] which orbit the [[dwarf planet]] [[Pluto]]. There are five moons orbiting the dwarf planet in total. The first one discovered was [[Charon (moon)|Charon]] which is near one quarter the size of Pluto. Charon was also sometimes considered a double dwarf planet. The second was [[Nix (moon)|Nix]], the third was [[Hydra (moon)|Hydra]], the fourth moon was [[Kerberos (moon)|Kerberos]], and the fifth moon to be discovered was [[Styx (moon)|Styx]]. ==History== [[File:Plutonian system size.svg|left|thumb|250px|Similar sizes of the Objects in the Plutonian system.]] The first and largest moon discovered orbiting around Pluto was Charon, Charon was discovered on June 22 1978 by [[James Christy]]. In May 2005, the [[Hubble Space Telescope]] discovered two smaller moons which were named Nix and Hydra. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Page/Planets|title=Planetary Names: Planet and Satellite Names and Discoverers|website=planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov}}</ref> Two even smaller moons named Kerberos and Styx were discovered in 2011 and 2012. <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/20110720.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewHorizonsHeadlines+%28New+Horizons+News+Feed%29 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-01-16 |archive-date=2015-05-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150501185401/http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/20110720.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewHorizonsHeadlines+%28New+Horizons+News+Feed%29 |url-status=dead }}</ref> <Ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.space.com/16531-pluto-fifth-moon-hubble-discovery.html|title=Pluto Has a Fifth Moon, Hubble Telescope Reveals|first1=Mike Wall 2012-07-11T15:06:47Z|last1=Science|last2=Astronomy|website=Space.com|date=11 July 2012 }}</ref> ==References== <references> *http://plane