{"id":208987,"date":"2025-01-06T16:29:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T16:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/06\/pluto-may-have-captured-its-moon-charon-with-a-kiss\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T16:29:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T16:29:32","slug":"pluto-may-have-captured-its-moon-charon-with-a-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/06\/pluto-may-have-captured-its-moon-charon-with-a-kiss\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluto may have captured its moon Charon with a kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pluto and Charon\u2019s meet-cute may have started with a kiss. New computer simulations of the dwarf planet and its largest moon suggest that the pair got together in a \u201ckiss-and-capture\u201d collision<\/a>, where the two bodies briefly joined up before settling into their current positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a U-Haul situation,\u201d says planetary scientist Adeene Denton of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., who reports the results January 6 in Nature Geoscience<\/em>. \u201cThey kiss and they say, \u2018Yeah, this is it. I want to build a system together with you.\u2019 And then they do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n