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How to pronounce charon in English?

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Type of ferryman

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Charon is relatively massive, about one-eighth the mass of Pluto, he explained.
From the sciencedaily.com
Charon, discovered in 1978, is by far the largest at about 1000 kilometres across.
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Charon has been in and out of hospitals ever since, often for weeks at a time.
From the ocregister.com
Charon, the system's only confirmed moon, is the smaller disk to the right of Pluto.
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Charon, Pluto's largest moon, 650 miles in diameter, was discovered in 1978.
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Charon, Pluto's only confirmed moon, was discovered by ground-based observers in 1978.
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Charon is not in the list of dwarf planets currently recognized by the IAU.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Charon was still undiscovered at the time Asimov proposed the TOW ratio.
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Charon and other figures sound monstrous, with Largess's voice becoming an electronic growl.
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  • (Greek mythology) the ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the river Styx or the river Acheron to Hades
  • Charon is a Finnish gothic metal band from Raahe, Finland.
  • Charon is the main antagonist in the comic book universe known as CrossGen or the Sigilverse. He appears most often in Negation but has also had his own limited series Mark of Charon and is mentioned throughout many CrossGen titles. ...
  • In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Charon is a powerful altraloth, a lord of the yugoloths, reportedly transformed into a more powerful creature by the night hags of the Gray Waste. ...
  • Charon is a fictitious Marvel Comics villain who made his sole appearance in the 1993 X-Factor Annual #8.
  • Charon, discovered in 1978 at the United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station, is the largest satellite of the dwarf planet Pluto. Following the 2005 discovery of two other natural satellites of Pluto (Nix and Hydra), Charon may also be referred to as (134340) Pluto I. ...
  • The View from the Mirror is the first quartet in Ian Irvine's bestselling The Three Worlds Cycle series.
  • Charon is a web browser for the Inferno operating system. It is a basic graphical browser with support for javascript, HTTPS, and basic support for FTP.
  • The ferryman of Hades. (Read more at Wikipedia); The largest of three moons of Pluto. (Read more at Wikipedia)