WASHINGTON astronomy-experts have the fourth Moon of ice around the Planet Pluto, a dwarf, said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) found.
Cited the ring to Pluto by the Hindu, Friday (25/7/2011), a small new satellites for a while known as P4, in a survey, using the Hubble Space Telescope, in the search to found.
P4 was first in a shooting with the wide field camera of the Hubble telescope see. It was announced that the Hubble took the photo on 3 and 6 July.
Moon named P4 is called smallest space scientists as the circling Pluto object. Estimated that the P4 has a diameter of 20 to 34 kilometres. In comparison, Charon, Pluto's largest satellite owned by 1,043 miles in diameter, while the other two months... belong to Pluto, Nix and Hydra, has a diameter of 32 to 113 kilometres.
"Very valuable, because an object that is as five billion kilometres, shows us Hubble space telescope cameras situation", mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in California said, led the research.
P4 is located between the orbits of moons Nix and Hydra, both of the Hubble Space Telescope discovered in 2005.
But the largest satellite of Pluto, Charon in 1978 in the United States Naval Observatory (United States) was, and the Hubble space telescope was examined for the first time with 1990 as part of a separate of Pluto.
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