Back in the 1980’s, a now-defunct magazine called Science Digest held a contest to name Planet X — the still-undiscovered world that astronomers believed might lie out beyond Pluto. One of the best ...
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How Pluto snagged its giant moon, Charon
Recent scientific modeling has proposed a fascinating theory about how Pluto captured its largest moon, Charon. The theory ...
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Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Some 4.5 billion years ago, ...
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