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The Mystery of Arrokoth: What NASA Didn’t See ComingNASA’s New Horizons mission changed our understanding of the outer solar system. After its famous Pluto flyby, it traveled ...
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Astronomers have for decades tried to figure out how Pluto captured its largest moon. Now, there’s a new theoryPluto 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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Scientists stunned after learning Pluto and its biggest moon collided billions of years ago: ‘Raises a lot of interesting questions’The authors suggest that Pluto and Charon, located in the Kuiper Belt at the edge of our solar system, collided without annihilating one another before being influenced by one another’s ...
The theory could explain how the dwarf planet (yeah, we wish Pluto was still a planet, too) could snare a moon that is around half its size. The team behind this research thinks that two frigid worlds ...
On this date, Jan. 19, 2006, the first probe ever destined to visit Pluto, its moons and other Kuiper belt objects launched from Launch Complex 41 at what is now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
A new theory proposes that Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, was formed billions of years ago through a rare "kiss-and-capture" collision in the Kuiper Belt. This process involves two icy bodies ...
Pluto belongs to a group of objects that distantly orbit the sun called the Kuiper Belt, where thousands of icy remnants left over from the formation of the solar system linger. Eight of the 10 ...
It could also help scientists better investigate the structural strength of frigid, icy worlds in the Kuiper Belt. "We've found that if we assume that Pluto and Charon are bodies with material ...
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