Pluto has 3 satellites

Pluto is the farthest planet in the solar system and also the smallest planet. According to recent observations by the US Space Agency, up to three satellites ( not 1 ) are revolving around this planet.

With the use of the Hubble Space Telescope to observe, astronomers discovered two more satellites around Pluto in May. If these discoveries are recognized by the International Astronomical Society , the two satellites will be named after Greek legends and associated with the Charon satellite, the only known satellite of Pluto. Currently in 1978. Temporarily, two newly discovered satellites are called S / 2005 P1 and S / 2005 P2. Their light is about five thousand times weaker than Pluto. That's why for a long time people couldn't detect them.

The two satellites are about 44 - 53 thousand kilometers away from Pluto, which is two to three times farther away than the location of the Charon satellite.

Comparing the diameter between satellites, scientists found that Charon's diameter was about 1,200 kilometers, while the diameter of the two satellites was only 32 kilometers and 70 kilometers. Pluto was discovered in 1930, about 6.4 billion kilometers from the Sun, at the heart of the Kuiper belt. This is an area in the solar system, stretching side by side on Neptune's orbit, at a distance of 4.5 and 7.5 billion kilometers.

The area is shaped like a ring, made up of more than 35 thousand objects with a diameter of more than 100 kilometers.