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How Pluto captured its largest moon Charon with a 10-hour icy 'kiss'
New research suggests that billions of years ago, Pluto may have captured its largest moon, Charon, with a very brief icy ...
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Pluto and Charon: a love story
An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took us to Pluto for the first time in July 2015. Scientists are astonished by the incredible features they've observed on the dwarf ...
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Spacecraft Will Reach Pluto in July, Revealing Last Face in Solar System
Scientists are hoping to use the craters dotting Pluto’s and Charon’s surfaces to take a survey of the Kuiper belt population and reconstruct how it has changed over time. Although tricky to ...
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‘A space collision you had no idea about’: 10 billion years ago, Pluto’s ‘Kiss’ changed cosmos forever
Pluto and Charon formed from a “kiss and capture” collision, a new study from the University of Arizona reveals, rewriting theories of planetary formation. Unlike catastrophic impacts ...