Kerberos is a small moon of Pluto, discovered on 28 June 2011 in images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope by a team led by Mark Showalter, and announced the following month. It was the fourth moon of Pluto to be discovered, after Charon, Nix and Hydra, and it orbits between the orbits of Nix and Hydra. It is only a few kilometers across. When the New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015, it showed that Kerberos is a double-lobed object that is unexpectedly bright, with a surface that is probably water ice. It is named after Cerberus, the three-headed dog that guarded the entrance to the underworld in Greek and Roman myth.
Before and after
- 11 May 2011Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence
- June 2011Rinderpest is declared eradicated
- 6 June 2011Discovery of C/2011 L4
- from 23 June 2011 to 25 September 2019Premiere of Suits
- 28 June 2011Discovery of Kerberos
- 1 July 2011Wedding of Albert II, Prince of Monaco, and Charlene Wittstock
- 8 July 2011Launch of STS-135
- 22 July 2011Creation of Kotlin
- 22 July 20112011 Norway attacks
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