# HST conferma la presenza di nuove lune intorno a Plutone

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NewsCenter Update - February 22, 2006

Hubble Confirms New Moons of Pluto

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the  
presence of two new moons around the distant planet Pluto. The moons  
were first discovered by Hubble in May 2005, but the Pluto Companion  
Search team probed even deeper into the Pluto system with Hubble on  
Feb. 15 to look for additional satellites and to characterize the  
orbits of the moons. In the image, Pluto is in the center and Charon  
is just below it. The moons, provisionally designated S/2005 P 1 and  
S/2005 P 2, are located to the right of Pluto and Charon.

See the full release at:  
[http://hubblesite.org/news/2006/09/](http://hubblesite.org/news/2006/09/)