Distant Pluto has three satellites, Hubble shows
1st Nov 2005, 21:32 GMT
Pluto, the smallest of the nine planets in our solar system, has three and not one moon as previously believed, images sent by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed. The planet, discovered in 1930, indicated the presence of a moon, Charon, in 1978.
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