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Pluto may have ‘kissed’ Charon to capture it
New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing ...
'Kiss and capture': Scientists propose new explanation for Charon, Pluto's largest moon
Unlike Earth, where the Moon orbits the planet, Pluto and Charon orbit each other, forming a binary system that is more ...
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Here’s how Pluto and Charon became a bizarre double planet
For decades, astronomers suspected that Pluto and Charon formed through a process similar to Earth and the Moon. This theory, ...
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Pluto And Its Moon Came Together With 'Kiss And Capture', Study Says
The love story between Pluto and Charon may have started with a kiss. A new study suggests the dwarf planet and its scarcely smaller moon likely came together in a collision that saw them conjoined ...
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NASA Monitoring Bus-Sized Asteroid Heading Earthward
2025 AB is expected to pass our planet at a distance of about 95,200 miles on January 3, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. The moon orbits the ...