Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there.
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN2d
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 ...
New Scientist on MSN4d
Pluto may have captured its moon Charon with a brief kissSimulations suggest Pluto and its largest moon may have gently stuck together for a few hours before Charon settled into a ...
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