Dr. John Barentine FRAS on Nostr: Interesting results: a "kiss-and-capture" origin for the Pluto-Charon system. ...

Interesting results: a "kiss-and-capture" origin for the Pluto-Charon system. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01612-0

I'm no dynamicist, but it sounds like the same scenario that probably resulted in the observed structure of Arrokoth. (Except they stuck together.)

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