New Moon Found Circling Pluto.

WASHINGTON - Astronomers have discovered the fourth month of the ice dwarf planet, Pluto, said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

As quoted in The Hindu on Monday (7/25/2011), a new small satellite, which was referred to temporarily as P4, which is found in a study using the Hubble Space Telescope, while in search of rings around Pluto .

P4 was first seen in a photograph taken with the Wide Field Camera of the Hubble telescope. He also announced that the Hubble took these pictures on 3 and 18 July.

Moon called P4 called rocket scientists as minor objects found around Pluto. Considers that the P4 has a diameter of 13 to 34 kilometers. By comparison, Charon, the largest satellite of Pluto property has a diameter of 1043 km. While two moons of Pluto, Nix and Hydra, have a diameter of 32 to 113 kilometers.

"It's very valuable because Hubble telescope's camera is able to show us an object that is up to five million kilometers," said Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in California, who led the research program.

P4 is located between the orbits of the moon Nix and Hydra, which were also found by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2005.

While Pluto's largest moon, Charon, was first discovered in 1978 in the United States Naval Observatory (USA) and was first observed using the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990 as a separate piece of Pluto.

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