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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 ...
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Pluto May Have Won Its Moon Charon with a ‘Kiss’
New research suggests that billions of years ago, Pluto may have captured its largest moon, Charon, with a very brief icy "kiss." The theory could explain how the dwarf planet (yeah, we wish Pluto ...
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Pluto May Have Captured Its Biggest Moon After an Ancient Dance and Kiss
By Jonathan O’Callaghan Some 4.5 billion years ago ... by the kind of collision that is believed to have formed Earth’s moon? The sizes of Pluto and Charon meant that it was difficult to ...
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How Pluto got its biggest moon with an ancient 'kiss and capture'
Scientists have uncovered a new theory to explain how Pluto and its largest moon, Charon ... in an ancient "kiss and capture" event around 4.5 billion years ago. This brief encounter — lasting ...
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This is the cosmic love story between Pluto and its moon Charon
Scientists have discovered a new type of planetary collision called “kiss-and-capture,” where Pluto and proto-Charon briefly ...
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Pluto’s Weirdly Big Moon May Have Come From A ‘Kiss And Capture’
Images) Researchers studying Pluto and Charon have long drawn a parallel to how Earth got its moon. The prevailing thought is that a Mars-sized body collided with Earth around 4.5 billion years ...
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The story behind Pluto's huge moon bodes well for distant ocean worlds
Pluto and its biggest moon, Charon, didn't have a messy breakup. New computer simulations show the primitive dwarf planet and the object that struck it likely had an unforeseen kind of cosmic ...
How Pluto and Charon Were Born From a Giant Collision
Recent simulations link the creation of Pluto and its moon Charon to a colossal impact, akin to the Earth-Moon origin, ...
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Astronomers have for decades tried to figure out how Pluto captured its largest moon. Now, there’s a new theory
Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.
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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 ... Because Earth and the Moon are warmer and more gooey, especially during the early Solar System 4.5 billion years ago when they ...
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Pluto may have captured its moon Charon with a brief kiss
Pluto and its moon Charon may have been briefly locked together in a cosmic “kiss”, before the dwarf planet released the smaller body and recaptured it in its orbit. Charon is the largest of ...
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Astronomers have for decades tried to figure out how Pluto captured its largest moon. Now, there’s a new theory
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