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The Mystery of Arrokoth: What NASA Didn’t See Coming
NASA’s New Horizons mission changed our understanding of the outer solar system. After its famous Pluto flyby, it traveled ...
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How Pluto captured its largest moon Charon with a 10-hour icy 'kiss'
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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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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Astronomers have for decades tried to figure out how Pluto captured its largest moon. Now, there’s a new theory
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 ...
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Charon: Pluto's dwarf planet partner
As the gatekeepers to the Kuiper Belt, Charon and Pluto are a unique double dwarf planet system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...
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Like our Kuiper Belt: ALMA finds 74 belts of exocomets around other stars
They come from the Pluto probe New Horizons, which should have left the Kuiper Belt behind long ago. Nevertheless, it is still measuring far more dust particles in its surroundings than should ...