Filmmaker Adam Nemoy helps celebrate the 90th anniversary of Pluto's discovery this month at the 6th annual 'I Heart Pluto' ...

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Jan. 7, 2025 — A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large ...

And did it form at the same time and in the same way as Pluto ... 1994/news-1994-17.html#heading-full-article 'Orbit and Mass of Pluto', Nature, 128, 1047–48 (1931) https://www.nature.com ...

sticking together to form a snowman-like figure and rotating as one body until Pluto essentially pushed Charon into a more distant orbit over time. “We were definitely surprised by the ‘kiss ...

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.

Pluto’s orbit is arduously long ... and we see their influence unfold over time.” She notes that to understand where Pluto is taking us, it’s helpful to look back at where we’ve been.

As they separated and this icy kiss ended, the team thinks that Pluto would have torqued Charon into a close, higher circular orbit from which the moon would have migrated outward. "The 'kiss' in ...