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Physical Properties
9 km
Orbit
Pluto
32.168 d
Sources & Further Reading
- NASA — official mission / factsheet page
- Wikipedia — extensive cross-referenced article
- NASA u2014 Kerberos
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.