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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.

Charon is the largest moon of Pluto. It’s also one of the most significant objects in the Kuiper Belt, the region of the solar system beyond Neptune, filled with icy bodies. Measuring about half ...

New research suggests Pluto may have had a "kiss" with its largest moon billions of years ago in an uncanny, harmless collision.

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.

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News Nation/World Pluto may have captured its biggest moon after an ancient dance and kiss Jan. 8, 2025 Updated Wed., Jan. 8, 2025 at 9:11 p.m. The dwarf planet Pluto, right, and its moon Charon ...

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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.