The tiny planet-not-planet that could: Pluto was discovered 95 years ago today
Feb. 18 marks the 95th anniversary of the discovery of our outermost planet-not-planet. Here's what to know about the short ...
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Pluto's Largest Moon Formed Through ‘Kiss and Capture’ Event Redefining Icy Worlds, New Study Explains
Scientists went over the questions of Pluto’s moons for years and Nix, Hydra, Kerberos, and Styx being smaller than Charon. Open the Youtube video One theory was that Pluto got its moon system ...
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How Pluto got its biggest moon with an ancient 'kiss and capture'
and potentially led to the formation of Pluto's smaller moons — Nix, Styx, Kerberos, and Hydra. Bill McKinnon, a planetary scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, praised the theory ...
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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 ...