Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging ... "It's a pretty big question since a bunch of other large Kuiper Belt Objects also have large moons, so it ...

and Glaciation on Cratering Records of Pluto's Largest Moon Charon: Implications for the Evolution of Kuiper Belt Objects', Earth and Planetary Physics, 6 (6) pages 495–521 (2022) https ...

Anomalous orbits of Kuiper Belt objects, studied since 2016 by Caltech ... mount 'A 1,000-ton shock': Did China just unearth the largest gold deposit of the century?

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

“And that has pretty big implications for the Kuiper Belt as a whole, because eight of the 10 largest Kuiper Belt objects are similar to Pluto and Charon.” For more on this research, see “Kiss and ...

Charon is the largest of the five known moons ... that Charon could have formed as the result of a hypothetical violent collision, when a large Kuiper Belt object struck Pluto at a high speed, ...

Analysis from NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object ... Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, was formed billions of years ago through a rare "kiss-and-capture" collision in the Kuiper Belt.

It represents the largest survey of such objects ... as in the canonical picture of a ‘belt’ like our Solar System’s Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. But a larger number of them are wide, and probably ...

Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) are celestial bodies located in the outer solar system, beyond the orbit of Neptune. This region, known as the Kuiper Belt, is home to a diverse array of icy bodies ...