Charon is a moon of Pluto, part of the Solar System in the universe. Pluto is a dwarf planet associated with the Sun, our star, and this space encyclopedia describes the moon’s identity and place in its planetary system.

Charon is so large relative to Pluto that the pair is often described as a binary dwarf-planet system. Their mutual orbit is unlike the ordinary planet–moon arrangement.

No object-specific chemical/elemental dataset has been verified and imported for this record. This does not mean none is publicly available. Appearance may be imagined; chemistry is not.