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MOON

Kerberos

Orbits Pluto

Physical Properties

9 km

Orbit

Pluto
32.168 d

Sources & Further Reading

Numerical values (radius, mass, orbital elements, temperatures) are drawn from NASA NSSDC Planetary Fact Sheets, JPL Horizons, and the JPL Small-Body Database. Last refreshed: 2026-04-18 18:19:26.

Kerberos is a small, dark, irregular moon of Pluto between Nix and Hydra, discovered in 2011 Hubble observations. New Horizons found it to have a double-lobed shape, each lobe ~8 km across.