New “Kiss And Capture” Theory Explains The Unique Relationship Between Pluto And Its Largest Moon, Charon. Story by Kyra Piperides • 12h.

The team ran advanced computer simulations of the Pluto-Charon impact and included these key structural features. In turn, ...

"Kiss and capture": New theory explains how Pluto captured its biggest moon Research on Charon's cosmic dance with Pluto could have implications for other objects in the Kuiper Belt.

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.

Denton believes the “kiss and capture” was about ten to 15 hours of planetary passion before they separated. Ultimately, their properties resulted in Charon rotating at a rate slower than ...

Pluto landed its largest moon, Charon, with a 'kiss'—overturning decades of scientific assumptions about how planetary bodies form and evolve. This is the conclusion of a new study, conducted at ...

This "kiss and capture" mechanism offers a fresh perspective on planetary formation, particularly about Pluto and its largest moon Charon.

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with Charon billions of years ago.

A Novel ‘Kiss and Capture’ Event Gave Pluto Its Largest Moon, Charon, New Study Suggests Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer ...

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.