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A Novel ‘Kiss and Capture’ Event Gave Pluto Its Largest Moon, Charon, New Study SuggestsResearchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...
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Pluto's Largest Moon Formed Through ‘Kiss and Capture’ Event Redefining Icy Worlds, New Study ExplainsPluto's Largest Moon Formed Through ‘Kiss and Capture’ Event Redefining Icy Worlds, New Study Explains Experts postulated a ...
They call this cosmic dance a “kiss and capture” event, which could indicate Charon and Pluto are roughly the same age. “Because Pluto is rotating rapidly prior to the collision, and because ...
A study led by Adeene Denton, a NASA postdoctoral fellow who conducted the research at the U of A Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, has revealed this unexpected "kiss and capture" mechanism ...
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This is the cosmic love story between Pluto and its moon CharonScientists have discovered a new type of planetary collision called “kiss-and-capture,” where Pluto and proto-Charon briefly connected and spun together before separating into their current orbital ...
University of Arizona researchers have unveiled evidence of romance at the farthest reaches of the solar system: a cosmic ...
Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with ...
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