Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing ...
Since New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto 10 years ago, experts have come to think of the dwarf planet as much more ...
Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a ...
“Because Pluto is rotating rapidly prior to the collision, and because Charon lies mostly outside of their corotation zone, ...
A new study suggests that the origin of Pluto's largest moon was quite different than our own. Here's what you need to know.
Simulations suggest Pluto and its largest moon may have gently stuck together for a few hours before Charon settled into a ...
Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...
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Billions of years ago, in the icy outskirts of the solar system, a dramatic collision forged the unusual pairing of Pluto and ...
Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there.