Minor-planet moon uncertain. There are 5 Jupiter trojans with a moon. Candidate binaries with an unconfirmed status are displayed on a dark background. There are only 2 centaurs with satellites, both of which are ring systems instead of moons. There are 87 trans-Neptunian objects known to have moons, with a total of 93 moons discovered. Candidate binaries with an unconfirmed status are displayed on a dark background. Minor-planet moon A minor-planet moon is an astronomical object that orbits a minor planet as its natural satellite. It is thought that many asteroids and Kuiper belt objects may possess moons, in some cases quite
Moons of Pluto Moons of Pluto The dwarf planet Pluto has five moons down to a detection limit of about 1 km in diameter. In order of distance from Pluto, they are Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra. Charon, the largest of the five moons, is mutually tidally locked with Pluto, and is massive enough that Pluto–Charon is sometimes considered a double dwarf planet. The innermost and largest moon, Charon, was discovered by James Christy on 22 June 1978, nearly half a century after Pluto was discovered. This led to a substantial revision in estimates of Pluto's size, which had previously assumed that