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A Novel 'Kiss and Capture' Event Gave Pluto Its Largest Moon, Charon, New Study SuggestsThe “demoted” dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon Charon make an unusual pair, and for decades, scientists have been ...
“Because Pluto is rotating rapidly prior to the collision, and because Charon lies mostly outside of their corotation zone, ...
Pluto's big moon Charon may have a different origin story than scientists suspected. New research suggests the two bodies ...
Unlike Earth, where the Moon orbits the planet, Pluto and Charon orbit each other, forming a binary system that is more ...
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Billions of years ago, in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, two icy worlds collided. Rather than destroying each ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN3d
Pluto’s largest moon formed in a ‘kiss and capture’ event, reveals new studyThis "kiss and capture" mechanism offers a fresh perspective on planetary formation, particularly about Pluto and its largest ...
Pluto and Charon's origin story has been rewritten by a recent study, revealing they formed from a unique "kiss and capture" ...
Space on MSN1d
Pluto May Have Won Its Moon Charon with a ‘Kiss’Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing ...
They needed some space. New research suggests Pluto may have had a “kiss” with its largest moon billions of years ago in a harmless collision. The report, published in “Nature ...
Until now, it was assumed that Pluto and Charon were formed after a violent collision. However, they may have found each ...
Astronomy on MSN2d
Pluto may have ‘kissed’ Charon to capture itNew models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing ...
Until now, the thinking was that Pluto and Charon formed like Earth and our Moon. New research has flipped that script.
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