The Quiz: The names of Pluto and its “twin” moon, Charon, are associated with what?
Disney characters
The Roman underworld
Greek cities
Galileo’s children
Pluto and its five moons (Charon, Nix, Hydra, Kerberos, and Styx) are all named in association with Roman mythology and the underworld. Pluto was the god of the underworld, and Charon was the ferryman who would carry the dead across the Styx river to the underworld. Charon is Pluto’s largest moon, and is so big that the duo is sometimes referred to as a double planet system (although Pluto itself is classified as a “dwarf planet”).
The correct answer to this quiz is The Roman underworld.