Personally I prefer NASA's pronunciation, which is "charon".
Personally I prefer NASA's pronunciation, which is "charon".
Explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)#Name
This guy is pronounced Karen
The moon like Sharon
Wouldn't make sense for the moon to be different than the god since it's named after him (hence why they chose that name for a moon of Pluto, lord of the underworld).
Named for a dude's wife, Charlene, and shoehorns into an appropriate mythological figure
Care on
As a non English native: "Car on"
Yeah that's how I'd pronounce it too, as a native English speaker.
This is typically how it's pronounced in english.
in greek, the C is basically silent, and it's pronounced like Hair-on,
Car on.
Sharon
Pronounce the Ch like Chiropodist.
Hmm? Cherry picked example? No, I'm more of a rum man myself.
Kerry picked example
All of the idiots in this thread thinking they know how it's pronounced.
It's pronounced charon. SMH.
Sh'yeah-ron. The way Wayne from Wayne's World would have said it. 😏
I always found it funny to read it as Sharon, and now you're telling me it's named after someone called Charlene? This keeps getting better
Sharon!!
Kharon ofc
The correct pronunciation is Chacarron. Rhymes with Macarron.
Χάρων, of course
Well, Charon if I’ve been speaking Italian more recently & Charon if French