Studying Pluto in more detail might tell us whether its cosmic dance really did take place, although it is likely to be a long time before another spacecraft visits the dwarf planet.
Pluto may have captured its biggest Moon after an ancient dance and kiss Astronomers have long wondered how Charon, the largest of those moons, came to orbit Pluto.
The pair of them orbit around a common center of mass outside of Pluto. They are dancing – and this dance might have started not with a collision, but with a "kiss". This is how planetary ...
Now, a new theory may provide an answer. A paper published in Nature Geoscience on Monday explores how Pluto's largest moon, Charon, might have come to orbit the dwarf planet. According to the new ...