Smithsonian Magazine on MSN6 天
A Novel ‘Kiss and Capture’ Event Gave Pluto Its Largest Moon, Charon, New Study Suggests
Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...
Kissing moons may explain why Earth's moon is so large
The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...
Space on MSN7 天
Pluto May Have Won Its Moon Charon with a ‘Kiss’
Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing ...
The story behind Pluto's huge moon bodes well for distant ocean worlds
Unlike how scientists believe Earth's moon formed billions of years ago, Pluto and its biggest moon, Charon, didn't have a ...
Astronomy on MSN8 天
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 ...
Forbes9 个月
Pluto Smashed Into Another Planet The Size Of Arizona, Say Scientists
roughly the size of Arizona from north to south. Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh while he worked at Lowell Observatory in Flagship, Arizona. Sputnik Planitia is a white basin ...
"Kiss and capture": New theory explains how Pluto captured its biggest moon
“Because Pluto is rotating rapidly prior to the collision, and because Charon lies mostly outside of their corotation zone, ...
Science Daily8 天
Pluto-Charon formation scenario mimics Earth-Moon system
A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ...