"We were definitely surprised by the 'kiss' part of kiss-and-capture. There hasn't really been a kind of impact before where the two bodies only temporarily merge before re-separating!" ...

Additionally, 80% of the largest objects in the Kuiper Belt have a large object rotating them like the Pluto-Charon dynamic, and "kiss and capture" events could have occurred in this region in ...

12, 2024 — A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and ... on the frozen surface of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, using observations from ...

Eight of the 10 largest Kuiper Belt Objects have large moons like Charon, Denton said, which means that “kiss and capture” collisions may have occurred across the Kuiper Belt as the solar ...

and Glaciation on Cratering Records of Pluto's Largest Moon Charon: Implications for the Evolution of Kuiper Belt Objects', Earth and Planetary Physics, 6 (6) pages 495–521 (2022) https ...

"Eight out of 10 of the largest [Kuiper Belt objects] have a large mass fraction satellite like Charon," Denton said in an email. "This process might have operated all over the outer solar system ...

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging ... "It's a pretty big question since a bunch of other large Kuiper Belt Objects also have large moons, so it ...

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.