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Definition of Charon

Charon
Charon Cha"ron, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] (Cless. Myth.) The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions. --Shak.

Meaning of Charon from wikipedia

- In Gr**** mythology, Charon or Kharon (/ˈkɛərɒn, -ən/ KAIR-on, -⁠ən; Ancient Gr****: Χάρων) is a psychopomp, the ferryman of the Gr**** underworld. He carries...
- five known moons: Charon, the largest, whose diameter is just over half that of Pluto; Styx; Nix; Kerberos; and Hydra. Pluto and Charon are sometimes considered...
- Charon (/ˈkɛərɒn, -ən/ KAIR-on, -⁠ən or /ˈʃærən/ SHAIR-ən), known as (134340) Pluto I, is the largest of the five known natural satellites of the dwarf...
- are Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra. Charon, the largest, is mutually tidally locked with Pluto, and is m****ive enough that Pluto and Charon are...
- underworld. Charon may also refer to: Caronte (album) (Charon), a 1971 album by Italian band The Trip Charon (band), a Finnish gothic metal band Charon (CrossGen)...
- following six species: Charon ambreae Réveillion & Maquart, 2018 — Taiwan Charon forsteri (Dunn, 1949) — Solomon Islands Charon gervaisi Harvey & West...
- Charon's obol is an allusive term for the coin placed in or on the mouth of a dead person before burial. Gr**** and Latin literary sources specify the coin...
- be larger than Mercury, but with the discovery in 1978 of Pluto's moon Charon, it became possible to measure Pluto's m**** accurately and to determine...
- Royal Navy have been named HMS Charon, after Charon, the boatman to Hades across the River Styx in Gr**** Mythology: HMS Charon (1778) was a 44-gun fifth rate...
- Sails of Charon" was covered by the American thrash metal band Testament on their compilation album Signs of Chaos in 1997. "The Sails of Charon" was also...