• Source: Pirx (crater)

Pirx is a 90 km (55.9 miles) wide impact crater on Pluto's natural satellite Charon, discovered in 2015 by the American New Horizons probe. It is located in at 55.2°N 256.18°E / 55.2; 256.18 (Pirx). The crater is located near Charon's north pole.
Crater Pirx is named after Pilot Pirx, the main character in a series of short stories by Stanislaw Lem. The name was approved by the International Astronomical Union in 2018.




See also


List of geological features on Charon




References

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• Pirx (crater)
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• Stanisław Lem
• Mendeleev (crater)
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• Dorothy (Charonian crater)
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• List of geological features on Charon
• Polish names in space
• Kirk (crater)