Charon

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Charon is the largest natural satellite of Pluto. In Mass Effect, Charon was actually a mass relay encased in ice and orbiting Pluto.

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Charon is the largest of Pluto's three moon. It was discovered on June 22 1978 by American astronomer James W. Christy. Charon is about half the size of Pluto which a diameter of 750.02 miles (1207 km) and is covered in frozen water. Even though Charon is considered a moon of Pluto it does not revolve around Pluto but instead Pluto and Charon both revole around a center point between them every 6.387 days. The average distance between Charon and Pluto is 12,160 miles(19,570 km)

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• Descent (Game)
• Mass Effect 2 (Game)
• Mass Effect Legendary Edition (Game)
• TerraGenesis (Game)

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Name

Charon

Aliases

Games

• Descent (Game)
• Mass Effect 2 (Game)
• Mass Effect Legendary Edition (Game)
• TerraGenesis (Game)
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Characters

• Has characters: Ashley Williams (Character), Commander Shepard (Character), David Anderson (Character), Donnel Udina (Character), Jeff "Joker" Moreau (Character), Kaidan Alenko (Character), Miranda Lawson (Character)

Concepts

• Has concepts: Mass Effect Field (Concept), Systems Alliance (Concept)

Objects

• Has objects: Mass Relay (Object)

Related Locations

• Has related locations: Space (Location), The Milky Way Galaxy (Location), Sun (Location), Pluto (Location)