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Pluto may have captured its moon Charon

Pluto’s Weirdly Big Moon May Have Come From A ‘Kiss And Capture’

Pluto's big moon Charon may have a different origin story than scientists suspected. New research suggests the two bodies engaged in a celestial kiss and tango.

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Pluto and its Moon Charon Formed Through a Cosmic “Kiss and Capture”

Until now, the thinking was that Pluto and Charon formed like Earth and our Moon. New research has flipped that script.

Newsweek on MSN · 1d

Space: How Pluto Landed its Moon With a 'Kiss'

Overturning decades of assumptions about how Charon formed, researchers have revealed an entirely new form of cosmic collision.

Space on MSN · 1d

How Pluto captured its largest moon Charon with a 10-hour icy 'kiss'

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with Charon billions of years ago.

Gizmodo · 1d

Sealed With a Kiss: The Unexpected Origin Story of Pluto and Its Moon Charon

Pluto and Charon may have formed through a “kiss and capture” mechanism, with the two icy bodies colliding and becoming temporarily stuck together, spinning in a cosmic dance before separating into two objects that are forever bound in orbit,

Image of the week: Pluto and Charon's fascinating embrace

New simulations propose a 'Kiss and Capture' scenario to explain the evolution of the dwarf planet and its main moon.

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NASA New Horizons spacecraft shows detailed Pluto flyover

An curved arrow pointing right. The New Horizons spacecraft traveled more than 3 billion miles to reach Pluto. Scientists at NASA have used the mission data to create flyovers that are even ...

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What did NASA's New Horizons discover around Pluto

What did NASA’s New Horizons find around Pluto? This groundbreaking mission unveiled a world of surprisWhat did NASA’s New Horizons find around Pluto? This groundbreaking mission ...

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Pluto Mission Will Now Study The Distant Solar Wind, Says NASA

NASA has given a new lease of life to its New Horizons mission, which in 2015 got the first-ever close-ups images of dwarf planet Pluto. Thought to be a target for cost savings, according ...

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NASA just released a video of what it would be like to land on Pluto

An curved arrow pointing right. It took NASA's New Horizons spacecraft over nine years to reach the distant world of Pluto, but it was well worth the wait. This video reveals six weeks of ...

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NASA: New detection on Pluto’s largest moon

which is about half Pluto’s size. Previous research, including a flyby from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015, ...

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Pluto: What are NASA’s five big discoveries so far?

That was until NASA's 'New Horizons' probe arrived in 2015 ... or even nitrogen glaciers. Before New Horizons, the best images of Pluto revealed nothing more than a few light and dark ...

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You think it’s cold? The winter storm is nothing compared to these icy worlds

In our solar system, Earth is one of only three worlds that sees temperatures above 32 degrees Fahrenheit, while other ...

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NASA's New Horizons releases first images of entire new world

LOS ANGELES: Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission on Wednesday released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever ... from the Sun and 1 billion miles (about 1.6 billion ...

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