Measuring Charon's radius by stellar occultation

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Feb 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005noao.prop..531y&link_type=abstract

NOAO Proposal ID #2005A-0531

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We propose to observe a stellar occultation by Pluto's moon, Charon, measuring the flux from an I=13.4 star (C313.2) as it passes behind Charon. This measurement will improve our knowledge of the radius of Charon by an order of magnitude. This will help answer the question of the relative densities of Pluto and Charon, constraining models of the formation of this binary system.

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