What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Pluto Is Still a Planet (Sort Of)
According to a recent YouGov poll, 35% of Americans think Pluto is not a planet. But they are all wrong—kind of. To get to ...
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How Pluto got its biggest moon with an ancient 'kiss and capture'
such as the idea that it was formed from debris around Pluto or captured by Pluto's gravitational pull. To resolve this, Denton and her team modelled a scenario in which Pluto and Charon collided ...
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Daily briefing: Pluto-Charon duet started with a gravitational ‘kiss-and-capture’
A new analysis suggests that Pluto used its gravity to entice Charon into this pas de deux, hugging the smaller body close before the two split into a whirling pair — a mechanism dubbed ‘kiss ...
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Gravity on Earth, Jupiter and Pluto
If a person with a mass of 55kg was to travel to Jupiter or Pluto, the effects of gravity would be very different from those on Earth. Gravity is the pull that a planet exerts towards its centre.
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How Pluto captured its largest moon Charon with a 10-hour icy '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 was ...
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'Kiss and capture': Scientists propose new explanation for Charon, Pluto's largest moon
Charon then began migrating slowly outward to its current near-circular orbit around Pluto. Phys.org reported that this relationship is an example of how gravitational interactions can generate ...
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Gravity on Earth, Jupiter and Pluto
If a person with a mass of 55kg was to travel to Jupiter or Pluto, the effects of gravity would be very different from those on Earth. Gravity is the pull that a planet exerts towards its centre.