Two books

Yep, my bad.

king_rodent (putting the oops in must read more closely)

> Look more closely. The solarviews site that you referenced lists
1137km
> as being the RADIUS of Pluto, not its DIAMETER, and confirms this
later
> with the statement that,
>
> "The improved optics allow us to measure Pluto's diameter as 2,274
> kilometers (1413 miles) and Charon's diameter as 1,172 kilometers
(728
> miles), just over half the size of Pluto."
>
> As to the relationship between 200 KX76 and Charon, the site
> http://www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr01/pr0110.html says
that "Kuiper Belt Object Found Possibly As Large As Pluto's Moon ".
>
> Ron
> ******
>
> king_rodent@...
> 10/18/01 01:31 PM
>
> This seems to be incorrect. The referring website lists 2001 KX76
> (they need a better name, let's call it "Tom" for now) as being up
> to "1,200 kilometers or more across". Pluto is listed at
> http://www.solarviews.com/eng/pluto.htm as being only 1,137km in
> diameter. If this is true, then their graphic and descriptions are
> incorrect.
>
> king_rodent (putting the eek in geek)
>
> > 2001 KX76 is smaller than both Pluto and its moon Charon. See
> > http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010830.html for a depiction
of
> > relative sizes.
> >
> > Ron
> > ******
> >
> > king_rodent@...
> > 10/18/01 12:30 PM
> >
> > Yes, I forgot Luna, Io and Europa. Jay did not include 2001
KX76.
> > Puto is currently the 18th most massive object in the solar
system.
> >
> > king_rodent (putting the eek in geek)
> >
> > > Jay Huebner submitted a better list. Please see his note on
> this
> > topic.
> > >
> > > Ron
> > > ******
> >
Service.